Note: For my daughter Randi Lynn, who this year turned 28 (which is, if you are counting, 4 wonderful cycles of 7!)
SEVEN
headstrong even before
you unfurled from the womb,
you so quickly picked Sunday
to come into the world,
you left no room for mom
to get her epidural. you came
the way millions of babies
have come and this to begin
your singular journey to heights
I now see you climbing.
but way back then, your tiny hand
around my finger so tightly curled,
if the great committee had given
me vote, I would have chosen you
one of the seven wonders of the world.