X.
and after almost two
days
a boy.
and then they took you
away.
X-a
because I couldn’t push
you through the molasses black passage
and out another door
they divided and cut back
the carapace between my pelvis,
and those layered internal drapes
blacking out broad daylight,
they dipped in
to your tingling placenta,
unwrapped me and you
and wiped you of blood and vernix
swaddled you, leaned you into my lips
and then took you away
for
thirteen hours
and by then a cuff and a little ruff of
gauze
taped to your little wrist.
and a thin, capped, i.v. tube
.
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