This poem is taken from Stand 226, 18(2) June - August 2020.

Laura Potts Two Poems
Yesterday’s Child
 
The sun slit a knife through the womb-wet night
and bled like an egg, like a budburst head:
In the swell of the sweat on the belly of the bed,
broken-throated then and red, you said
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