The Other Side
Many months she breast-fed him
so that latterly his muffled voice
might be heard saying hungrily:
Other side, other side!
She, much bereaved, heavily
into reincarnation,
doing a wistful double-take,
would shift him to the full breast.
One day maybe he'll say to her:
When your father died his soul
might have waited for rebirth in me.
(To some, madness, for others nourishing.)
Max Richards
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