- full moon–
happy baby hugs
a bag of diapers - waning moon
mum steps back
into fallen diaper - baby powder…
the freshness of
fallen dry snow - tossed diaper
eyes follow
half of the moon - the whine
of baby’s breathing becomes
a gentle breeze - night breeze
where mum’s song begins - twinkling stars
appear so quickly
baby powder - so quickly
the baby powder is released…
dry snow - great waterfall…
the rainfall of mum’s misery
never ceases to fall - great waterfall…
the rainfall from mum’s misery
adds to it - a waterfall…
indistinguishable are
mum’s and baby’s tears
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- full moon —
I reach
for a nappy - crescent moon—
its slight curve
folded nappy - baby drool:
a mirror it does seem - baby drool
reflected is the progress of
sheet of ice - baby piss
the sun’s edge is
brightly shining - baby piss
twinkling stars’
shape are revealed - soiled nappy there lies a sunken pearl
- soiled nappies
bedroom floor is
strewn with pearls - full moon…
mum’s hands rearranges
a cloth nappy - trashed nappies…
a constellation of
weighted stars - new nappy
Oh! that the moon
should shine as bright
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- dribbling milk
on baby’s chin
spring snow - baby-powder the snow just keeps on falling
- snow drops–
a diaper hoard
collected - drying nappy
did quite fade away–
drifting white snowflakes - clothesline nappies
i see, when gazing out,
briefly flitting snowflakes - afternoon snowflakes
the numbers do mount up–
drying nappies - folded nappies
ceaselessly
snow falls - falling nappies
you can count them all–
snowflakes - unfolding nappy
indistinguishable is
Heaven’s clouds - soiled nappies blossoms i should not tread
- meadow nappies
gazing from afar
withered chrysanthemums
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- new moon—
mum pulls a tissue
from her sleeve - summer blizzard
all of grandmum’s hair
bobs against my face - grandmum’s hair
falling and settling:
summer avalanche - snowball—
grandmum offers
scrunched-up tissue - galaxy’s edge
in her teddy bear’s
eyes - grandpa’s beard
tickling my face…
summer grasses - caressing
grandpa’s beard…
snowy thicket - light snow
grandmum arranges
crib blankets - summer avalanche!
every morning grandpa shaves
his beard - snowballs
heaps of grandmum’s hair
sinks - snowballs
mum’s old shoebox full
of love-letters
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- high moon
mum raises
her bare breast - hazy moons
the misshapen looks
of mum’s breasts - mum’s breasts
arranged in a maternity bra
high moon - early sunrise–
she lifts her breast
from her maternity bra - maternity bra
baby gazes moonlight
in its wake - moon eclipse–
mum gathering her breasts
into a maternity bra - night blizzard
i wait to hear
mum’s lullabies - new moon–
the coolness of
reconstructed breasts - moon eclipse–
mum reworks her breasts
into maternity bra - new moon–
the remarkable fullness
of pregnancy breasts - new moon–
in the cups of maternity bra
reconstructed breasts
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- breast milk
these circles of
snowdrops - summer snow—
i pay attention to
dribbling breast milk - twisting
a sweat-stained chemise—
summer rain - breast milk
falls but fails to linger…
summer snow - breast-feeding snow is still a’falling
- summer avalanche—
breast milk
weighs heavily - summer snow—
bare breast covered
with breast milk - breast milk…
departing winter’s
very tracks - breast milk…
snow dribbles
about the breast - breast milk…
white-waves marked in
gravity - breast milk…
white threads
twined from droplets
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- feeding breast
pale cherry blossoms
in bloom today - the morning moon’s pale light feeding breast
- yellow chrysanthemum
now, how many layers
do i seem to have piled on atop the other?
sunshine - sunshine
however many petals has
the yellow chrysanthemum - sunshine
in countless kinds
yellow chrysanthemums
bloom - summer suns
O, sweet canary
in how many months
have you come to meet me? - goldfinches–
sunshine
does never seem to end - summer goldfinches
are pale, yet
in a moment, i sweat - goldfinches —
the ever-continuing
summer damp heat - daybreak sunrise
is gone from view–
soaring finch - daybreak sunrise
how charming are
soaring finches
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- sadness—
seeds inside this body
withering - mum’s belly is now in full flower
- mum’s belly
where amongst the clouds
does the baby find lodging? - exposed breasts buds swell while i gaze from afar
- silver dewdrops
when might they dry?
this river of my tears - bellies swell
and become phases
of the moon - hungry baby
sucking the moonlight…
breastfeeding - wandering from my breast
not in a trickle, but
in a milky torrent
breast-milk - expectant belly
oh, that the moon tonight
droops down and down - swollen breast dreaming on my pillow
- swollen breasts
pillowed by white clouds
am i
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- mum’s swollen belly
touched with color, most confusing
the heaven-shining moon - mum’s belly
why does the moon
seem so near? - expectant bellies…
heaven’s moon
halt in their course - mum’s belly my gaze is on the moon
- swollen belly
long have i gaze upon it!
full moon - mum’s belly…
even when the day does dim
the moonlight shines - swollen breasts–
do i see, today, at the last
twin moons - full moon–
what am i do about
this drooping belly? - summer sun announcing the birth of a baby
- summer sun
i briefly glimpse
mum’s swelling belly - summer sun–
it will not remain
i know to well
mum’s due date - full moon
may fall, or not,
lifting my heavy
belly - full moon
round and round
mum’s belly
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- plastic rain…
a bundle of pregnancy tests
falling straight down - hard rain
her pregnancy test
reads positive - trying to read
the pregnancy test
tears are fogged and
blinded - plastic snowflakes
i do count them out…
pregnancy tests - hard snow pregnancy tests keep on falling
- hard rain
i did weep and weep again
at the doctor’s office - pregnancy tests a sprinkling of snowflakes
- pregnancy test
has such a glow, that
the blossoms fail to shine - pregnancy tests
the fallen, scattered snow—
how do i sweep it away? - pregnancy tests…
white snow
has fallen, drifted high around
my feet
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