When I Say “My Baby”

I wish in English

there was some sort of

maybe reflexive way

to say, “my baby,”

because when I say “my baby”—

when I look at her and call her “my baby”—

(which is to say, many times a day)

I do not mean to say

so much

that she is mine,

but to tell her

that I am hers,

completely.

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9/10/23