After Birth - A Conversation with Myself
Julia Kasdorf The professor says, What’s the most striking thing about giving birth besides the pain? (I know she grades on participation.) When I was so lonely I dove for the phone and scraped both elbows bloody, I thought thank God I wasn’t holding the baby. When I finally went out, weightless, my breasts got heavy and, dismal as night diapers, dragged me home. When the radio said children are waging war in their former shape. The womb bleeds for weeks. I see that none of this strikes her: Grade C. I wrote nothing and don’t care since this birth which was as striking as death and common as dirt. (The Journal) |