"A Babe in the Garden"

In a few minutes
it will have been fifteen years

since she arrived in the world,
a babe in the garden, again.

The sweetness from whence she came
still lingers and pooles,

eddying around her as a tide.
She has never quite believed

all I told her about
"How Things Are" and

I think she knows the secret
about this land of dreams.

but having fallen in love
with stories and their telling

long ago--she will
stay until the end

enjoying every character,
event and scene in the drama

of her own making.