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Poetry | March 2004

Museum Piece

By Anne Boyer

    Heart drums under heart
                        Limbs hung               feet flutterkick lungs
The head gentles
               O archetype of birthing

                                     woman Vesuvian
still under ash           Millenniums    squat                     Crowning
         tongue     the universal wet of down.

       Midwives bide patient as a midwives
                                      The head springs
enters air                 enters air                         enters air

             After the birth perpetual
there is no more ordinary
            fingers tangled in hair

                    lolling
         a born baby
painted maple, cord a scared white snake               pulsing
                          that first sight              my face / a mother’s face

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