Happy Birthday Mom

I scribbled thanks to the universe in my notebook - a thanks
that your body and your house and your care were where 

I landed and continue to land.

I sit at your table and lie in your arms and I think, 

what a warm world this is, and what a world our world 

would be if every mother could be as generous in love 

as you. Wars would be resolved with pillow letter apologies. 

Everyone would be offered full mugs in the mornings and bottles 

and blankets in the evenings. There would be storytelling and laughing 

and long tangling discussions. It would be a safe, civil, friendly, trustworthy 

world because every person would know that at least they had their mother.

Thank you, Mom for your wild joy and your tenderness, your honesty, courage,
and vulnerability. Thank you for showing me what it is like to be human.