The Secrets of Magic Day

Nancy F Huth, 49, Trying on Boots (24 May 2010)Today is May 24th, so it is the 49th birthday of two poets I know, my wife Nancy and the Finnish poet Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (who has probably created 20 poems in the time it's taken me to write this sentence). But this is not about Jukka-Pekka, great though he is.

This is a reminder that this is Magic Day, the only day in the entire year when Nancy and I are the same age. Today, we are both 49. Tomorrow, that changes.

So we celebrated big. I stayed ...