If they had bundled you home
in blue flannel, crepe paper draped
from walls, your shrill cry filling
the room with balloons, moon-faced
ratcheting the air like an upturned beetle,
fat and white as a thumb left in water,
I would have been afraid.
The nurse tapped her watch, covered
your eyes with a towel, blotted your toes.
All I ever knew of you was a name
tattooed on a piece of vellum,
and one black footprint
stepping off the page.
Old one I'm dusting off and considering submitting
Evidence of a Near Life Experience
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Re: Evidence of a Near Life Experience
I like it.. the images are fresh
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