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PRAYER FOR MY GRANDSON

After the waters broke

in my brave daughter

and hormones soaked

her pelvic altar,

and the uterine nave

began to cave,

...   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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