What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

Author:Kate Baer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2020-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

First Woman

First woman, then mother. Heart-eyed and

weak-kneed in the pale nursery light. Hold

your tender battle wounds and be baptized

in the cold slant of rain against the shopping

cart. There is no time for crying now (one is

already enough).

Where do we go when the beams of our ship

have rotted? When every word comes out in

our mother tongue? There is no room for

company among the weeping, among the

sour apples and milk-drenched things. Isn’t

this what you always wanted?

Then one day on the street she calls to you.

First: hello. Second: oh yes. In your kitchen

she finds some water, holds the baby to her

chest. She might as well be nursing him. In

time she is no different from another limb.

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