Archives for the Date May 7th, 2010

tiny, wrinkled fingers on new, new hands (a repost)

I think it must reshape us, every time. The week-by-week womb-knitting, the mother-nesting in soft color to soothe and welcome, the stretching, wearying, growing desire for promised joy. And at the end, the pain that fades against the will to embrace new life pushed into air, blue, wet, wizened. We are named again, mother, and [...]