Maternity | Poem Text

I gave birth to life.
It went out of my entrails
and asks for the sacrifice of my life
as does an Aztec deity.
I lean over a little puppet, 5
we look at each other
with four eyes.

“You are not going to defeat me,” I say
“I won’t be an egg which you would crack
in a hurry for the world, 10
a footbridge that you would take on the way to
your life.
I will defend myself.”

I lean over a little puppet,
I notice
a tiny movement of a tiny finger 15
which a little while ago...













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