occasioning your book
to Pooja

today
they arrived

coffee
and your book

I’d ordered both
at
the same time

two exigencies
of pressed seeds
and
once opened
stimulation

the order could have been
about
how good and needful things
uplift

though mainly it was
timing
and
I thought
together
were good reasons

though
I want
to offer here and now
only your poems
with
your drawings
my congratulations
Pooja

on success
so far
with these works you have
and with all future
paginations

achieved
accomplished pleasure
added to
the fluid joy of each
day

you should have both
and all good
my friend
poet

c l couch


All the Words I Kept Inside by P. J. Gudka

the book is available through Amazon

Pooja's engaging blog is at https://lifesfinewhine.ca/

photo (above) by Jr Korpa on Unsplash