MIDWIFE
The following is poem number 20 of 2009’s NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days during the month of April. “Midwife” was the original prompt. I wrote the poem for Courtney, who is on a midwife’s journey.
MIDWIFE
The best I can do is guide you through, explain the taste
of losing yourself to you once you get the feel of life.
First you’re young. You’ll need to run, cry over things
that leave you fast. Then, and this is the tricky part –
there’s a moment when your soul knows it’s lost, calls back
to your mother’s bulge, further still to a star,
and further yet, a spark, the intersect of left and right
as you multiply over night into simple breathing form.
Yes. Yawn your way across the band. I’ve made my hands for you.
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