Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Happy birthday” by A. Damon Cutter.

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Happy birthday

By A. Damon Cutter

There is a dream with two balloons

in your belly, inflating the way grass grows

as we walk through the rain,

autumn thoughts trained on those twins

twitching beneath your skin,

on your birthday in a happy October.

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Copyright © A. Damon Cutter

Cutter is an ex-pat new-Canadian writer and biologist living in Toronto. He is author of the nonfiction book Evolving Tomorrow, and his poems have appeared previously in the Literary Review of Canada, Rowayat, and Long Con Magazine.

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