For Taylor, now thirteen
You look nothing like your mother.
I shouldn't have said it
but I saw you standing there
a woman, beautiful, smiling,
a superficial shyness pulling your strings,
and I had planned to say
You look just like your mother!
and I searched your face and found
nothing familiar to cling to
and so it slipped and so
did the hope, a little, from
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