I Am...

I am the Queen Anne's Lace pressed in the book
found by a love stricken teenage girl

I am the daughter, sister, lover, mother,
friend, aunt, grandmother, maker

I am the little toe headed girl with
skinned knees and dirty tear streaked cheeks

I am the garden growing sprouting my
leafy greens giving a radiant scent when the wind blows

I am sadness, lust, anger, love, happiness,
laughter,sexy, beautiful

I am the stone pathway that leads to the
porch with the rocking chairs waiting to be rocked

I am the book that holds the pressed Queen Anne's Lace
with the words of past poets writing about love