Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird

Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird

Author:Blythe Baird
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781638340577
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2022-09-16T00:00:00+00:00


I chose to know exactly

when my baby would

be the size of a poppy seed.

An apple seed. A sweet pea.

A blueberry. A raspberry.

A green olive. A kumquat.

A lime. A plum. A lemon.

A fat tomato. An avocado.

A pear. A bell pepper.

An artichoke by now.

7.

I chose to walk past

the newborn section of

Target again & again.

I chose to hold

a little Velcro gym shoe

in my hand.

I chose to fit my thumb

into a tiny cotton sock.

8.

I have never felt

entitled to grieve this.

I am scared of being called out

for how I can be unwaveringly



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