prairie wolf
digging a birthing bowl
how she scrapes
listens -- scrapes and scrapes --
her teen pregnancy
Blithe Spirit, 26:2, 2016
Marilyn Fleming
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻草原野狼
挖一個分娩洞穴
牠是如何地用心刮土
傾聽 -- 刮土,持續地刮土 --
她的青少年懷孕
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只草原野狼
挖一个分娩洞穴
它是如何地用心刮土
倾听 -- 刮土，持续地刮土 --
她的青少年怀孕
Bio Sketch
Marilyn
Fleming was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin USA. She won her
first prize in the Hildegarde Janzen Oriental Forms Award in 1988.
Samples of her poetry can be read on her website.
The contrast between a prairie wolf carefully preparing its birthing place and a teenager's unintended/unplanned pregnancy is thematically significant and emotionally poignant. And Marilyn's use of repetition is visually and emotionally powerful, revealing that birth preparation is such hard labor.
ReplyDelete