making it about me...

[Gerda]

Sjohn, my friend, I think of you so often and wonder how you are.

Maybe you will see this post sometime, me telling you, Happy Father's Day. I know all that you have done in your life for your children, and that flood of love made light in this world.

Sara in Her Father’s Arms
by George Oppen

Cell by cell the baby made herself, the cells
Made cells. That is to say
The baby is made largely of milk. Lying in her father’s arms, the little seed eyes
Moving, trying to see, smiling for us
To see, she will make a household
To her need of these rooms—Sara, little seed,
Little violent, diligent seed. Come let us look at the world
Glittering: this seed will speak,
Max, words! There will be no other words in the world
But those our children speak. What will she make of a world
Do you suppose, Max, of which she is made.