a woman in child-
birth has her own pain
effaced
by a white sheet,
her legs are spread
head emerging
from merging,
black hair
from black hair
in just
enough blood
on these white sheets
to taint
her own beginning.
birth has her own pain
effaced
by a white sheet,
her legs are spread
head emerging
from merging,
black hair
from black hair
in just
enough blood
on these white sheets
to taint
her own beginning.
hortensia anderson
