Poem Category: Motherhood

waters breaking
the sun-blind windscreen
to the hospital

at breast
in tender joy
her second born

first kick
lightens the life
she grows

start of life
her first kick
in the guts

dribbling on my arm
I move the babe
from my breast

nine month’s sway
serving their breakfasts
in summer heat

kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free

what approached the nine months
for you
I let in

cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile

her eighth month…
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines