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