PREGNANT

always hungry and full with a long list

the pile in the basement grows with me

I got high yesterday from buying a stroller

it was such a good deal

sometimes I don’t know myself

it seems so selfish to grow my favorite person

inside me but I am

I’m never alone anymore but 

it’s that same feeling that no one really understands me

I guess some things never change

we are literally tearing up the floor 

and laying down a new one to prepare ourselves

i wake up early thinking about 

what she’s thinking about
I guess this will be my life

Love is touching

Mouth/sucks/nipple
Hand/rustles/hair
Nose/nuzzles/neck
Fingers/grasp/ear

Weaving&rejoining
Melt me back in&pull me out
Keep me near&keep me nearish

To birth a being

To birth a being
It takes something
I don't know
But I did know then
A shape
Conjuring
A scarf of a wail
pulled forth from my throat
Easy easy now
But holding back isn't
The stiches looped
Will melt back in
But that being --
He's on the outside now,
Waxy, purple-ish,
And soon untethered