Tuesday, August 18, 2009

News at Eleven: I was dumbstruck by this stanza

[of Barbara Louise Ungar's] in "After Birth" on page 26:

Now she wonders what she missed.
Essential oil of newborn heads? Eau de l'autre coté,
scent of heaven or wherever we come from.

We all wonder we missed. Every day. But when a new mother, who also happens to be a kind of magus, says it, it takes on a suddenness that appalls us.

from The Student Operated Press: Poets More Informative Than Anchormen

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