Tag: Unions

2023 AWAKENING xxxix

  1. breast milk
    these circles of
    snowdrops
  2. summer snow—
    i pay attention to
    dribbling breast milk
  3. twisting
    a sweat-stained chemise—
    summer rain
  4. breast milk
    falls but fails to linger…
    summer snow
  5. breast-feeding snow is still a’falling
  6. summer avalanche—
    breast milk
    weighs heavily
  7. summer snow—
    bare breast covered
    with breast milk
  8. breast milk…
    departing winter’s
    very tracks
  9. breast milk…
    snow dribbles
    about the breast
  10. breast milk…
    white-waves marked in
    gravity
  11. breast milk…
    white threads
    twined from droplets

2023 AWAKENING xxvi

  1. mum’s swollen belly
    touched with color, most confusing
    the heaven-shining moon
  2. mum’s belly
    why does the moon
    seem so near?
  3. expectant bellies…
    heaven’s moon
    halt in their course
  4. mum’s belly my gaze is on the moon
  5. swollen belly
    long have i gaze upon it!
    full moon
  6. mum’s belly…
    even when the day does dim
    the moonlight shines
  7. swollen breasts–
    do i see, today, at the last
    twin moons
  8. full moon–
    what am i do about
    this drooping belly?
  9. summer sun announcing the birth of a baby
  10. summer sun
    i briefly glimpse
    mum’s swelling belly
  11. summer sun–
    it will not remain
    i know to well
    mum’s due date
  12. full moon
    may fall, or not,
    lifting my heavy
    belly
  13. full moon
    round and round
    mum’s belly

2023 AWAKENING xxv

  1. plastic rain…
    a bundle of pregnancy tests
    falling straight down
  2. hard rain
    her pregnancy test
    reads positive
  3. trying to read
    the pregnancy test
    tears are fogged and
    blinded
  4. plastic snowflakes
    i do count them out…
    pregnancy tests
  5. hard snow pregnancy tests keep on falling
  6. hard rain
    i did weep and weep again
    at the doctor’s office
  7. pregnancy tests a sprinkling of snowflakes
  8. pregnancy test
    has such a glow, that
    the blossoms fail to shine
  9. pregnancy tests
    the fallen, scattered snow—
    how do i sweep it away?
  10. pregnancy tests…
    white snow
    has fallen, drifted high around
    my feet

2023 AWAKENING xxiv

  1. pink flood
    all pregnancy tests
    prove positive
  2. spring flood
    purchasing many
    pregnancy tests
  3. spring flood
    too many pregnancy tests
    in the bag
  4. spring drizzle
    i go out to buy
    pregnancy tests
  5. pink mist
    in plain sight for all to see…
    pregnancy test
  6. pink rain–
    not at all bothered
    by expecting confirmation
  7. pink flood
    the many views of
    pregnancy tests
  8. spring flood
    too many brands
    of pregnancy tests
  9. pink snow
    pregnancy tests
    laid perfectly straight
  10. pink avalanche
    anxious lovers
    crossing their fingers

251. pregnancy tests —
the straight gaze
of thick moonlight

2023 AWAKENING xxiii

  1. sleeping babe
    a number of views
    hazy moon
  2. full moon
    against mum’s breast
    sleeping baby
  3. waking baby
    with an open mouth…
    full moon
  4. hazy moon
    baby’s mouth
    opens
  5. clumps of snow —
    whatever becomes
    of baby’s blanket
  6. morning avalanche —
    breastmilk settles
    in baby’s mouth
  7. mouth of milk
    who’s that coming
    to view a full moon?
  8. hazy moon
    seasoned father
    blows smoke
    out from his lips
  9. a clear view
    of a full moon…
    baby bottle
  10. hazy moon–
    the view blocked
    by the boiling pot
  11. pink avalanche–
    anxious teens stumble onto
    positive pregnancy tests

2023 AWAKENING xxii

  1. snow-heavy blossoms her feeding breasts
  2. hazy moon
    below her eyes
    swollen breasts
  1. cherry blossoms—
    seasoned husband
    sneaks into his wife’s blouse
  2. peeking into
    wife’s sleeping shirt…
    cherry blossoms
  3. peeking out
    from wife’s soiled shirt…
    cherry blossoms
  4. peeking in, peeking out
    through soiled blouse…
    cherry blossoms
  5. anxious husband peeks
    over wife’s shoulder…
    cherry blossoms
  6. a wiggling worm
    peeks out…
    excited husband
  7. creeping vine
    peeks out from husband’s pants
    looking for sex
  8. under covers of darkness
    seasoned husband slithers
    from his hole
  9. distant cherry blossoms—
    the spring colors
    of her breasts

2023 AWAKENING xviii

  1. pink tornado
    giggling baby grabs
    mum’s circling finger
  2. pink tornado–
    twirling finger
    makes a perfect circle
  3. plunging my hands
    into mum’s palms…
    pink waterfall
  4. pink moon–
    baby’s suckling lips
    cling to mum’s breast
  5. snowballs
    scattering mum’s pearls
    onto the floor
  6. fussy baby
    still in the crib–
    hazy moon
  7. dried milk
    in dark and thick strokes…
    moonlight
  8. straight gaze
    of thick moonlight…
    drying milk
  9. spilt milk
    every dribble looks
    like a pillow
  10. avalanche
    spilt milk dribbles
    deeper into the dark
  11. baby formula
    is blown away…
    rising fog