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HOME BIRTH

 

Out from the womb, where wild rushes start

in a quick steady heartbeat not from my own heart,

 

home has a new body since you urged it free,

pouring your head down through me like a soul,

 

calling the cosmos imperiously

into me, so we could reach, could unscroll

 

the body I gave you that you had to take

(where I held you to make you till you were its mark).

 

(This is my body—which you caused to break

open at home on my bed in the dark).

 

From Spells

 


 

 
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