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Aubade: Delivery

By Alex Fabrizio @AlexFabreeze ·

During pregnancy, cells cross
through the flat disk of placenta
in both directions—mother

gives the fetus her body
and takes it back. They aren’t one.
They’re separate as hands freeing

the wood stick of the trapeze.
But parting, something gets left
like marks on a white doorframe.

Thus I’ve never left my mother
or the darker earth of her blood,
leaped from a rock into water

believing the water could take
all of me. Never broke apart
our white nidus, our atoms of string.

I who left open the door
to the amber crossing—
I have crossed, yes. But stayed

in the river that I crossed,
blood sparkling with cells
like scales. Like another woman.

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Alex Fabrizio

Alex Fabrizio’s poems have recently appeared in Subtropics, Southeast Review, and Sou'wester, where her work was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook Determinant will be published in 2014 by Kent State University Press and was the winner of the 2012 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition. She has an MFA from Ohio State University and will enter the PhD program in English and comparative literature at Columbia University this year.

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