What do you teach her,
that baby who is you - and well beyond -
in mirror thought and habit?
And how connected are we, in the all-ness of Life -
for she also does teach you,
that growing lady who is becoming herself alone?
How many threads of a new life appear upon the family's expanding sky?
What words define that closeness so dynamic and so entwined
that we call love, but goes beyond
all definition,
stemming from the very fabric of our being?
What do you teach her, and what has she taught you?
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