“Death did not come to my mother
Like an old friend.
She was a mother, and she must
Conceive him. Up and down the bed she fought crying
Help me, but death
Was a slow child
Heavy.”
"Conception" (1974) st. 1–2; Collected Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1983
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