Friday Morning

1.

You invited us
to the baptism of
a pea plant
at the Ritz Carlton. 

I RSVP'd
with a Yes.

2.

You say
I live each day
as if I were
on the final spin
of a red carousel.

3.

You were to be
Iris.
But the sonogram lied,
and desperate,
they named you Gregory.

4.

Amazing
how six alphabets,
two vowels and
two syllables
can make you smile.

That a name
could be a sponge.
That sounds
could make you cry.