PC, I like it. Can I repost it on my blog? Not offended if you say no.
Andrew
On 18 December 2012 11:46, Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From some time ago....
> Remembering after all these years.
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> *Being born*
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> she was the color of a thunder cloud covering the sun
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> red and blue and white and gray
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> it was the blue that alarmed me
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> and how her little body didn’t move
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> flaccid as a rag stuffed doll
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> as if I expected her to dance or speak to me
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> the braided cord soaked in blood and mucus
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> trailing down my leg then up and between her mother’s legs
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> where she had just come from
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> living in darkness and water
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> for months and eternity
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> I held her firmly
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> wrapping her in a silver thermo blanket
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> as if she had just walked in space
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> or been discovered beneath an avalanche
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> and she had as much
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> shooting out of her mother like that
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> without as much as a push or a shove
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> into this cold metallic world
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> The back of the ambulance was a space ship
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> the crackling voices
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> the wide black window speckled with silver stars
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> the circling red and white lights
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> making her even more blue than before
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> she’s not breathing I said
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> more to myself than anyone else
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> she’s blue and she’s not breathing
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> I placed my giant thumb in her little fist
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> and touched a massive finger to her miniature lips
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> she shook all over all at once
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> like a dog shedding the rain from it’s fur
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> opening that tiny mouth
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> screaming and breathing for the first time
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> that single burning gulp of air
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> filling the space that was now hers
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> making it all very clear to us that she was here
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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