Drawing by Judith Wolfe

L. E. SCOTT /

Three Poems



    With Child

    A woman cries out

    As the child she is giving birth to
    Tears its head from between the darkness
    Of her legs

    The cries of the woman soften
    As the child pulls itself deeper into life

    The line is cut -
    The beginning of the end
    Is over

    It is a man-child
    The word is spoken
    After the blood is washed away
    Now he must walk into life
    The afterbirth has given up
    All claim on him
    Walking, walking, walking

    Beyond Tomorrow

    No childhood is evil
    What's beyond the darkness of tomorrow
    Death man sing a song for the living
    The children of yesterday are growing old in the ways of man

    And the World was Dark

    You and I, friend
    You and I,
    Let us dig up the dead
    And force their eyes open
    And if the dead's eyes
    Have been eaten by worms
    We will replace them
    With the eyes of the freshly dead
    So they will see
    How we have survived the light


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