Birthday Girl

photo by Amy Thompson

pink hot

sticky moist

no fear

dark canal

squeeze forth into light

though I wasn’t squeezed

I was cut

into this life

larger than it

the breath flows in

the breath rushes out

in out

in out

in out

there is nothing

but the breath

that’s all there

ever is

it was so short

I’ll say

then

lie down

or be cut down

grey cool

crepey dry

no fear

only light