Each Stroke

Giving birth to new feelings,
  life to the unborn

Eternity swaddled,
  cradled and warm

A labored delivery,
  nibbed forceps demand

Prying out a new meaning
   —each stroke of the hand

(Plane To Las Vegas: July, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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