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Patricia Wellingham-Jones
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Talk
of that first tooth
stabbing a nipple tender
with nursing, the stream of milk
that spurts from your breast
to the infant's mouth,
the rooting and grunting
of his small-animal pleasure.
Sit with children and you learn
of woolly-bear caterpillars and the glory
of ketchup and a five-year-old peeing
on the teacher's new shoes and
a jet trail longer than a rainbow
wrapping the world.
Listen to children who talk
only of astonishing things.
~Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Patricia Wellingham-Jones is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee,
author of Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer, Apple Blossoms
at Eye Level, and Welcome, Babies as well as editor of Labyrinth: Poems
& Prose. She has been published widely in print and online journals and
anthologies. Email.
© 2003 by Patricia Wellingham-Jones. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2003 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.