BIRTH
PAMPHLET Part 3
I bear down
A
deep muffled, seismic,
Subterranean
earth-breaking sound
Comes out of my body, as I am this childbearing.
In a half glimpse of the mirror
I
see my full woman body and I am not only me:
I
am also my mother bearing me,
And
the mother before her
and Mother Life
I am also George and the children
And
the friends
“There
is his head”, George says!
Tina’s
hands receive the silver head.
I
breathe: air-life-light-love
“A
boy, no: a Girl!” Oh, a girl! A girl!
She
is on my breast now; her thick
Still
pulsing cord attached to the placenta
in
my womb. Her skin is like a petal.
She
looks at me and again at this moment
(Like
all my other children then)
She
is the most beautiful child I have ever seen.
Tina
and George cut the cord that has stopped
Pulsing
with blood
I
am in my bed now, with my child over my breast.
She sings a purring mantram as she breathes. Our awareness is luminous.
We
are a seed of Life-Light floating in the
Cosmic air. And God is watching
May, born at home. February 5th,
1974