birth

 

birth

 And the rules of engagement ring

The birth of the dinosaurs and children in a fantasy world

And the t-shirt challenge is to be treated as such a beautiful day of the possible exception

And I am not a middle school student who is a toddler and no matter what you believe in

 

Certificate of Live Birth

Jasmine Reid

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You arrive on a Friday, with hail & vast
moving grey above small window
of white light, as a wound
which might be a passing through
of particulate ultra violet waiting
to arrive in sight, our adjectival
see. will it be violent, our photographic
ring around the light?

we inviolate what we can’t see,
revelate its arrival with our question:
boy or girl?

please, let the unseen speak in me.
there are stellar nurseries we cannot grimace.
i am a certificate of a bright somewhere.
you are a poem passing through
the membranes i have moved, mountainous you,
head up-of the interrogative blue