Because Of A Happiness Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Or a day of rowboats out on the lake,
Seen through the beaded curtain:
A new day, bright as seeds- there was a whole
Room for her,
And the colors of flowers needing her
Fingerprints-
She almost felt she could be naked under the
Sun, off from
School,
The mallards and swans swimming around
Her asking for things,
The brown pines like knights standing watch:
And she bathed
While around her was joy like footsteps
Their echoes
Entrancing the neighborhoods until they fell
Away-
And she swam, the sunlight milky upon her
Nipples like beads,
As we all watched her from the slats of
Dragonflies; we could tell that she smiled
Because of a happiness.