Marathon 1969
Yes, they told her
they will induce our
baby.It was the high
blood pressure,
it seems
I skipped out
of work early
at twelve. The
maternity unit was
just up the road.
She sat on a table,
legs swinging over the
edge. ‘That’s it,
no more after
this one’.
She looked shattered,
as if she’d run a
marathon. I peeked
at our new arrival, she
was fine.I left
my lunch break,
you see. She says now,
each confinement
was easy. It seemed
different at the time
that summer, Neil Armstrong made
his ‘giant leap for mankind’ we did too.
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