Watercolor "Ineffable" by Julianza Shavin circa 1995
This is a poem that was at the bottom of the list; ie has already been posted, but I found a painting (resuced from the broken laptop!) I wanted to add to it. I have added artwork into others as well that can be viewed if you scroll. As with the writing, I welcome feedback, positive or negative. To me, it's sort of hard to make out these small artworks here on AD, but so it goes.
This is a poem about a suspected and dreaded miscarriage, following one miscarriage already.
DOME
Every day,
five or six times a day
I go hunting.
Any woman half my age
is no stranger to blood;
seven, eight, nine times a day
and through the night too.
What I’m hunting is you
whom I’ve never seen or felt
but whose heart, for all I know,
beats, beats now.
I, a reflex, lost another.
"Tissue," said the doctor,
adjusting his watch.
"Is it such a big deal,"
said my mother, rattling her pots.
Oh my brother, my mother,
did you not know
that that warm ooze
for five nights and days
was part of you as well,
the swell that settled hourly,
the carrion knell,
the vital excellent cleansing
that only death can do?
I’m on the warpath now
stalking every moment,
certain I see red.
Just one spot
and again my heart
will enlarge, stretch,
curve like a dome,
To bury, to carry you,
eternally,
home.
Of course I have not experienced this but you I believe that you share a compelling experience within your verses, Julie. Respectfully, I send you love and my very best wishes,
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