Nostrums: a handbook of the unborn
nostrums: a handbook of the unborn examines pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and birth with poems and recipes for teas and remedies in doula valerie...
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nostrums: a handbook of the unborn examines pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and birth with poems and recipes for teas and remedies in doula valerie wetlaufer's characteristic quiet, devastating voice:
You were born on the first cold day of autumn.
I walked slowly to the hospital.
Dogs ran for me, a woman in labor, each time I howled.
There is a smell to birth; not bad, just feral.
I held you in my hands, all seven pounds of you.
I watched you emerge, watched your body give way
to oxygen, milk, your mother’s smile.
There is a rhythm, a ritual to birth. I felt the ache
in my hips, the tightening of the fundus
how easily the placenta slipped away from me.
I awoke, a mixture of blood and breast milk
in the air
(from nostrums)
handbound, ~30 pages
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:30 pages
- Publication:2013
- Publisher:Unthinkable Creatures Press
- Edition:1st
- Language:eng
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- kindle Asin:B0DLT8BLJZ
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