Birth

Last night, darkness

Was in purer

Liquefaction;

I was afloat

In its fluid warmth.

From time to time,

Faint vague voices

Penetrated

My amniotic

Sublime silence.

Nothing moved, but

My prenatal

Heart, and soft pious

Placenta with

Me all the while.

Today morning,

The world turned, up

Side down. It got

Tighter and tight,

Darker and dark.

And then darkness

Vanished into light.

A woman was

Screaming, but when

I cried she hushed!