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Moving the House (6)
Book by Wendt, Ingrid
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1980
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January 8, 2013
With quite a flattering foreword by William Stafford, these poems are evocative and provocative.
"Learning to Breathe" was especially appealing to me, detailing a pregnancy with many astronomical references, contrasting the smallness of the world of a mother's involvement with her unborn child, and the vastness of the universe about to be impinged by the child's birth.
"Heartbeat suspended in
silence so
much deeper than
the pull of tides
of seaweed
rocking, rocking
spreading, placenta
pulsing
soft as a sun
so many light years away"
"Learning to Breathe" was especially appealing to me, detailing a pregnancy with many astronomical references, contrasting the smallness of the world of a mother's involvement with her unborn child, and the vastness of the universe about to be impinged by the child's birth.
"Heartbeat suspended in
silence so
much deeper than
the pull of tides
of seaweed
rocking, rocking
spreading, placenta
pulsing
soft as a sun
so many light years away"
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