From an Undelivered Birthday Card

The way with June is this: it ends (and first it's my sister's birthday) then it ends Today in the smell of elderberry blossoms today in the colour of rice crispies on a steel spoon of milk today in the hand of putty & windowglass of getting confused/fingers/putty oil/ not really finding/ a way/looks bad/keeps falling out/the depth/of the impossibility/thickness/frush/fruss/infinite heartless boredom/shit/frustration of desire to know/therefore control Or Awhile Swing Today is Linda's Birthday June turn to the word for it return to bed return to dinner tune to breath breathe Make a note for anytime to sing of Today I wore a gingham/shirt without sweater it shone 25th of June Birthday