Infertility: An Erasure

that
flame.
a sickly
winter
brown
of
unpleasant
years

new diversions
feminine

in the
miserable
wetted
blame
between two
time
was wrong

since
the first moment
<always>
<always>
whenever punished
punish
echoed

crying out
in
a
dry
bed,
hands
held
on
died in sobs

Outside
hope
of
a fashion
sparks
a
wish

(written for the 30/30 Project in support of Tupelo Press)