Emily Somewhat Preggers

Up to what age can one stay a child?
Up to what age can one bear any
Only the pot knows?
A bulge may indicate undernourishment.

There was this snag of permanent pregnancy
And the seclusion it calls for
While the face up there is withering.
While the mind up there long grew into belly.

Batches of unsent mail, stowed away
Under embroidered petticoats or the pillow
Of a bed in a room
And then snuffed out the candle for revery.

I ignore if there was ever an alarm clock tolling.
To tell the days apart
She had no other occupation than
To wait composedly for the one of her delivery

Aggrandizing within one minute stuff after another
Into always wanderlusty chits.
If ever, the bell must have tolled continually
For every day is doom's betwixt posies.

December 3, 2007