Lunden: "Oh, no!"

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Lunden:
"Oh, no!"

::

[she knows] how to live,
calmly, reticently yet gaily,
and sometimes with abandon
                                       ---A. Bennett
::

I drop my plastic
drinking cup to ground

and

watch its water stain
the dust.

"Oh, no!" she says to
no one in

particular.

I trip across my
feet, then

recover.

Hand cupped over her
mouth in concerned

alarm,

she blurts, "Oh, no!" to
the morning air.

I drop her an un-
expected

compliment.

"Oh, no!" she cries with-
out a prior thought.

Which brings, of course, to
my sure lips a smile;

and

now I'm left to plan
my very next

surprise.

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Author's note: Lunden
is not yet two years old.

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