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Susan Lane: Sonogram

September 9, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Little firefly lighting the jar, 

Sirius in a dark sky. 

 

Butterfly of the first quickening 

flutters, curled in your cocoon.
You carry dust and clay 

from the beginning, genes 

 

and chromosomes sorted and packed, 

your plan for how you grow into yourself. 

 

From these you build your bones. 

Little snail, captive of mother’s 

 

thundering heart, may you hunger 

for this world, may you yearn 

 

to turn and drop headfirst into it’s wonder. 

Little pilgrim, may your journey 

 

be swift. May you arrive safely 

in the land of your kin. 

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Susan Lane

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