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Volume 51.2
Summer
2020

 

haiku sequence

 

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deep winter
the pregnancy test
forms a plus sign

my husband wraps me
in my grandmother's shawl
first labor pains

transitional labor
I swim under
wave after wave

Caesarean—
our daughter is lifted
from within me

trouble nursing
I break into tears
in the hospital shower

slowly waking
from her nap
eyelash wish
 


Hannah Mahoney

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