Your grand entrance
On the night
We turned back the clocks
For an hour of extra light
Your coming weighty into the world
On the night of
Milk's Big Dipper
Your having made the mammalian passage
Into Dan's hands
And onto Sarah's breast
Into and onto our loving
You instantly wise to breathing and seeing
So starts your history
Your jump onto the calendar
Beautiful
Know-nothing know-it-all
Staking a claim to space and time
Bringing your sweet say-so
Your yes and your no
Into the spinning of the world
Adding your voice to the chorus
Bringing extra light
To the dark and awestruck world
-- Vancouver, 7:01 a.m., November 7, 2010
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