Status Updates From Notes to New Mothers

“I stare at what kept you warm before- patches of whisper-soft, downy fur on the curve of your shoulder, the ridge of your ear. I can’t believe how much I didn’t know. Later that night my friend across the country texts me: ‘Isn’t it crazy that that’s the only way to get to earth?’”

(Labouring, Meggie Green)

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