BIRTH REMEMBERED Magnetic joining of opposite sex conceives in their sacred lust the warm liquid dreams of blood pulse reflex in amnio-tidal lungs following nine moons of imperfect trust down its uterine rejection, cast out of life yet alive to gasp and scream its primal stress, wailing for heartbeat's unity, though suckable milkbreasts revive in arm's enfolding caress her drumbeat's soothing security from dread unsafely arrived at seeming salvation blessed yet a child of giants may fall when its four-limbered, thumb-fingered brain craves action for impulse to power cry hunger and mess, grab, kick and crawl and bump into demons of pain when a bright little ravenous grower discovers a gossamer wall for howling hate and terror at amorphous, anonymous enemy whose deadly wit a hideous parody catches in traps of error with cuts and scrapes, bruises and burns on beloved but vincible body, that sleeps, to dream symbolic image and fable, re-arranging a balance of mind, each lesson from ancient friends giving hope they will be able to help the mystery unwind.

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