for my friend Nicole Mayer
Keep your beauty growing like Frost’s poem
splitting far star into spectra of light
among infinities. Keep beauty’s theme
waltzing through your heart within our plain sight
as you laugh at Caden’s clowning faces.
Keep your beauty flowing like Caitlin’s flow
of crayon over paper, her spaces
of color balanced as artist allows
faith and instinct to prosper, your soft smile
and intense eyes tracing her intense eyes.
Keep your beauty enthralling as Keath’s style
of wit, grace and memory enthralls, wise
and exact as Solon. Keep your beauty
nurtured deep inside you, fearless and free.
Roger Armbrust
July 30, 2013
