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Pantoum on Sterility

Terri Brown-Davidson

For hours I watched babies out of every car window.
Their pink mouths unfurling, tongues a darker secret.
Toothless, bald pates shining, their faces rose in my rear-view mirror
Like pale moons floating over ragged lines of cars.

Their pink mouths unfurling, tongues a darker secret.
I turned cacophony up on the radio, sank inside its voice.
Like pale moons floating over ragged lines of cars,
Their waxen faces ascended, dwindled on the horizon.

I turned cacophony up on the radio, sank inside its voice.
Childless, haunted by babies packed inside every cell.
Their waxen faces ascended, dwindled on the horizon.
Soon it was dark, and my driver’s seat stayed silent.

Childless, haunted by babies packed inside every cell—
Toothless, bald pates shining, their faces rose and rose.
Soon it was dark, and my driver’s seat stayed silent.
For hours I watched babies out of every available window.

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