From: Onyxvelvet@aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:17:11 EST
Subject: hi
To: smorsepluggy@yahoo.com

Dear Stephen

Laura Stamps suggested (after we found we were both writing poems for new babies the same week) that i send you some poems I wrotefor a friend who is adopting a baby from Guatemala-- in fact she is down there this week.

i thought i would send you the whole file-- I just typed it-- some variant versions etc-- I don't usually send to online magazines-- seems harder to keep track of etc-- but here are some
hope you like them-- it was actually a request from her mother in law
that her friends write a poem for the new baby called AWAITING ALMA
best

Lyn

If you ever wondered how many drafts it takes to write a poem, then you should look at these and perhaps rephrase the question.

Stephen