The Wild Place Before the Beginning

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Did You Know Another Word for Belly Is Matrix?

I wonder what’s happening

far below my mind and heart

and

in my

uterus. Is my son

entertaining himself by swimming,

does he worry about his future novel,

or is he building tents

and imagining wild things

found only in fantastical forests?

— — — —

I can’t help but dream

that his little world is extraordinarily

magical.

His world is hidden

from the one he’ll one day

know, fear, love, and rebel against.

I can’t help but imagine

that his current play place

is far more exciting

and strange than simply

a dark cave

where nutrients

mysteriously enter.

— — — —

It’s the somewhere

where he first experiments