Found Poems #1

DEATH CONCEPTION

"She opened, like a shell in the sea
she opened, and he fell drowning into her."

And from that point of passion, no doubt,
conception, there comes, in the next line,
death, visions of a child's coffin,
the stoic mother,
the dazed father,
a struggle, then, for religion,
a crawling through snake-root,
mangrove swamp, back to the edge
of disbelief, and disbelieves again.

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