Who’s Two (For Clementine)?

So now who’s two (but nearly four), 

would that be you, Miss Clementine? 

There’ll be no lazy speculation, just 

the refined sophistication you devise - 

with, for sure, beguiling eyes  

Gentleness in kind with sweet and calm 

and worldly views creates an air which 

illustrates a nascent charm; two years 

displayed or four or even more disarms 

defence against prodigious innocence 

Glory ‘tis to see you grow this way! An

irony contends our view is but a gaucherie 

of whom and what we think we are; 

knowing you as you explains we see 

just who we’d really like to be 

© 25 July 2011, I. D. Carswell