this pain.

Aria  
I know you

Like a little diamond

Flickering in the distance

Neath violet-loved grass

and the almost evening

shadows.

In your world there

Will always be a paper boat

I set it within a lake on

an August afternoon

the tiny golden flowers

of your name will forever

trace the way

My Aria, sweet heart

Darling, light

& free.  

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to my new baby girl, Aria. xo