08 June 2006

The baby looked toward me
and I was born -
to sound, light
lift, life
beyond my life

She wiggles her toe
I grow
I go to school to her
and she to me
and to Bonnie

Lorine Niedecker

1 comment

taiji heartwork said...

Especially poignant when you learn that she aborted the child she had conceived with Zukofsky, at Zukofsky's insistence. She never had any children after that.