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Not Language:

SWWIM Every Day
by Minadora Macheret
 

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!

That which comes before
mama
as the ink of the eye.
A rustle in the lining
the fluid disrupts, amniotic
the womb
& mouth
it cherishes.
Now, lapushka
—your cellular prison
is motherly fear & hope.
The baby becomes

viable, 24 weeks,
& slips past the need for developed organs,

a continued cocoon,
a survival
wide as the palm of your hand.

The wound of arrival
is just enough

to signal desire,
live—
away from sustenance,

the first sound through which you enter
your own lungs

Minadora Macheret is a Herbert Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. She received the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Salamander, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018).

 

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