For Lynn on her Birthday (11:49 pm!)
I don’t know why
I was surprised to hear
you are just now 16.
I had been thinking
you were the age
of summer or fall
winter spring.
You do not need
the look of a 75-year
old man turning
with the seasons
like the pages of
a book dogeared
at 303, not like yours
a well-read 64.