Morning Song Flashcards
contradictory opening simile
fat gold watch
The midwife
Slapped your footsoles,
and your bald
cry took its place among the elements
Our voices
Echo, magnifying your arrival
New statue
in a drafty museum
Your nakedness
Shadows our safety
We stand
round blankly as walls
I’m no more your mother
than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow effacement at the winds hand
How does she describe the baby’s breath “all night…
All night your moth-breath flickers among the the flat pink roses
I wake to
Listen: a far sea moves in my ear
What does she do when she hears even “one cry”
One cry, and I stumble from bed
How does she describe herself when she is stumbling to her crying child - moo
Cow-heavy and floral in my Victorian nightgown
How does she describe the child’s mouth movement
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s
What shape is the window and what is it doing to the stars (gulp)
The window square/ whitens and swallows its dull stars
And now you try
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