Birth

14 x 19.5 cms, gouache & acrylic on paper

Birth

Months of expectation
yet birth comes as a shock.
No one tells you the truth
about the raging relentlessness
of that potent force.
They can’t. It won’t write.
Mind’s an obstruction.
Birth’s beyond words
like that which sparks it;
knowable only in the moment.
Ouverture: woman as cunt, welcoming;
Finale: woman as womb, expelling.
Body reforms. Life transforms.

© Sandra Meredith, April - May 2008

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Untitled22 & Birth poem

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Blue Woman 2 & Jane Roberts poem

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Disappearance & Elegy prose poem

Metamorphosis 2 & Eyes poem

Blue Woman 1, Raft

Hidden Woman Drawings

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Dress & Dress poem

Regard, Metamorphosis 1

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Woman Looking Out

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Abstracts

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Small Portraits

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