Simple Joys

Simple Joys Wishes for the simplest of joys, to watch her healthy, well-fed boy play in a paddling pool, on a sunny warm day bits of mowed grass stick to his legs, hands, as he stands up, by 16 months, so confident on his feet that he plays at making himself slip on the lawn how many have had this? --this joy-- she thinks about the early days when the top of his head was something she knew, and loved that oval, that egg-shape that bread-loaf scent