A BIRTHDAY CANDLE
by Donald Justice
Thirty today, I saw
The trees flare briefly like
The candles on a cake,
As the sun went down the sky,
A momentary flash,
Yet there was time to wish
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“A Birthday Candle” appears in Donald Justice’s collection The Summer Anniversaries, (Wesleyan University Press, 1959), available at Amazon.com.
Photo: “Sunset Over Pine Forest” by Kim Seng
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