Babies

For Noah

you expect them for so long,

yet, they surprise you. small strangers who look like prizefighters who remind you of the people you love the most.

you had no idea, despite inevitability; the process, it gets you every time.

don’t even get me started on toothless mouths. that baby smell. i can’t write a thing when i lose my mind.

they don’t even have a name until they are given one for you to carve into your heart like the others,

to roll off your tongue like music for a new world.