I love how this birth poem is told in the voice of a gutsy young farm boy serving as midwife, how it celebrates earthiness, blood, and teats, how it ends with the mingling of human sighs and sow sighs, new life hard won. Beautiful, Jim Heynen.
Marianne Zarzana replied on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 03:25pm
I love how this birth poem is told in the voice of a gutsy young farm boy serving as midwife, how it celebrates earthiness, blood, and teats, how it ends with the mingling of human sighs and sow sighs, new life hard won. Beautiful, Jim Heynen.