HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! one of my favorite poems-- My Mothers Body - By Marie Howe Bless my mothers body, the first song of her beating heart and her breathing; her voice, which I could dimly hear, grew louder. From inside her body I heard almost every word she said. Within that girl I drove to the store and back, her feet pressing pedals of the blue car, her voice, first gate to the cold sunny mornings, rain, moonlight, snowfall, dogs. Her kidneys failed, the womb where I once lived is gone. Her young astonished body pushed me down that long corridor, and my body hurt her, I know that - 24 years old. Im old enough to be that girls mother, to smooth her hair, to look into her exultant frightened eyes, her bedsheets stained with chocolate, her heart in constant failure. Its a girl, someone must have said. She must have kissed me with her mouth, first grief, first air, and soon I was drinking her, first food, I was eating my mother slumped in her wheelchair, one of my brothers pushing it, across the snowy lawn, her eyes fixed, her face averted. Bless this body she made, my long legs, her long arms and fingers, our voice in my throat speaking to you know.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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