Showing posts with label newborn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newborn. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Newborn

wrinkled from mother-water
eyes closed to the Mystery
old person's seaweed hair
fingers thin as tendrils
accepts odors, sounds, dry-
warmth. hears its own gurgling
cry. does it yet ask why?

hans ostrom 2022

*Henry Morgan Ostrom, born November 23, 2022