Here's the image I started out with:
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With a free write under my belt, I sat down to write a poem. I'm not sure it's quite there yet, but here's (at least) a first draft:
Here and Now
Our minds dwell on future and past
Where will we leave our footprints
behind? Where have they gone before?
A child lies restless in the belly of a woman
who is on her path to starting a family.
The child tosses and turns, the mother thinks
“Where will he go – a mover like this?
Will he be a doctor or lawyer or teacher?
Where have I been? Here and there.
And now I am going to be a mother.”
She smiles to herself at the future path
laid before her, brick by brick
in her mind.
This woman is already a mother.
Her child inside her is already her child.
He is living, experiencing her care,
her movements, her strange food desires,
her inhale, her exhale – he takes her breath.
Placing a foot behind her belly button,
he presses – Know I am here. She knows.
Tickling toes that she will soon see bare,
she hums to herself and to him –
living in the moment.
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