<span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0)">GERTRUDE GIVES BIRTH TO TWINS</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma">
<br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">To
birth is to take in</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">fresher
aspects of. </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">An
owl’s nest strewn </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">in
a white field. My brother</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">coughing
up sunlight</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">in
a white field, </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">feathers.
Five o’clock </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">half-grazes
the snowed-in </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">shadows.
Meaning, her kids </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">arrived
here as into a flood. </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">As
out of some liquid prayer. </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">O
Gertrude, whose placenta </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">stretches
clear </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">across
this skyline: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I
will listen listen listen </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">to
all the unmurdered </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">birds.
Singing in</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the
laboring heights.</span></font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>





<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Lucas Farrell</b> farms goats and the occasional poem or two. Please visit </span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" href="http://www.bigpicturefarm.com/" target="_blank">www.bigpicturefarm.com</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> to learn/read more.</span><br>
<br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org" target="_blank">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>