Mothers’ blood runs thick with a thousand thousand generations of awe-ful trial: knees drawn high, chins to chests, bracing, pushing against trapped breath.

Thickened by

love	loss
was mothers’ blood
love in trembling	loss of mamas who
outstretched arms	like demigods
reaching	created life
to hold their little ones close	while spilling their own
for the very first time.	in clotless torrents.

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