“Birthday” by Richard Taylor

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Fading into BoliviaLike dipping into William Blake,
parsing you is never
the same text twice.

Yours is the speech
of shifting sands,
your moods a sea of dunes

nicked with little crescents
of sense shaped by who knows
what winds, what rills, what magma.

You are unmappable,
will never hang on someone’s wall,
fit folded in some owner’s glove box.

No cartographer, no climatologist,
I record only the summits
of your weather, highs and lows,

and try to dress for every region—
each day uncertain whether
to don sun block or a parka.

-Richard Taylor
Fading into Bolivia
Accents Publishing

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