J E A N V A L E N T I N E
Photo courtesy of Schlesinger Library
Great-grandmother,
be with us
as if in the one same day & night
we all gave birth
in the one same safe-house, warm,
and then we rest together,
sleep, and nurse,
dreamily talk to our babies, warm
in a safe room all of us
carried in the close black sky.
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Jean Valentine
Shirt in Heaven
Copper Canyon Press 2015
