Given and Giver
by Darlene L. Young, published in Segullah, Spring 2007 and The Mother in Me
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Mother-fluids:
Tears and milk and sweat.
Filling and draining, at once,
I thirst.
Hurtling through the day,
Or else meandering.
(Both perilous, both right.)
Haunted and hungry,
Yet blossoming, widening,
I abound as I yearn.
A whole universe
To some, and still
Less than the dust.
Bent forward, I fret,
Bent back to regret.
Waver and wash to and fro.
Careen, sometimes,
With joy or fear,
But still it is a dance.
Ebb and flow,
Enfold and reach,
Wait and watch,
Weep and sing.
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