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Squatting at Womb’s Mouth

Squatting at Womb’s Mouth

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Squatting at Womb’s Mouth

12×11.5 in
Woodcut

Squatting at the Womb’s Mouth
by Ruth Fainlight

Swaddled in feathers and cloth
a keen old face peers out through
what could be the entrance to a burrow
or a hanging nest

but she is not that sibyl, so shrunken, so ancient,
who pleaded for death

her gaze is too cool
with an abbess’s shrewdness, an ambassador’s
judgement, the tolerance
and wisdom of the Great Mother

squatting at the womb’s mouth
giving birth to herself.

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