Birth Day Poem 3/8/08
How long or short
is a birth canal? Four inches
or eleven hours, you
set your own pace, mine
irrelevant, going for broke,
my pain your small red life raft,
riding the swells toward air
and light and noise. You burst
into oxygen, screaming to the sky,
delivering your message as I lay
panting: Everything
you know
is over. Everything
has just begun.
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