A being formed/not formed yet
into anything more than an orb
in a photo on our refrigerator—and this
pulsation will one day break
through embryonic sac, her skull hopefully
not tear what one doctor today called
the vestibule that beautiful awareness
between the opening and exit, that expanse
where future presents itself as a rendering
of the light body—and sometime well past
kindergarten she’ll charge through a door-
way where her generation awaits
like an exciting verb, though now
she’s a swirling inside our daughter’s
womb—an elliptical galaxy backlit
naked and ready we imagine, her
sleep stretched out undulating
from one shore to another less familiar
Laurie Sewall‘s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Minnesota Review, Permafrost, Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, and Columbia Journal, among other publications. She received a BS from Northwestern University, an MFA in poetry from New England College, and an MA in counseling psychology from Lesley University.
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