Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

Being World

I am invidious of mothers’ rubber air 
Connecting them to baby. How they walk 
With young on hip, the way the baby turns and
Looks at world, then turns to Mother, asking what to
Feel about the spot of world that Mother 
Has provided with a point. When baby leans 
On Mother, sighs, and gives herself 
To Mother, who is being world, and I am not.