Just Born
Poems are often inspired by other works of creativity: songs, paintings, sculpture, prose, these all give rise to gorgeous verse. Sarah Endo is a Massachusetts writer of poems, prose, and picture books, and she wrote this poem after reading an essay by Catherine Newman called "Bedhead." That essay got Endo thinking about "what might be etched more deeply into my memory than my own name," and the result of that musing is this inspired poem.
Just Born
By Sarah Endo
Just born I held you,
amazed that you who had grown inside me,
who I pictured my whole life
could be so unfamiliar
so strange
You were so puzzled-looking
so oddly beautiful
a curious little kitten
all wet and dark
dangling
just an instant as I drew you near
Each of us wondering, perplexed
I was expecting a little me
Instead I found one and only you
How lucky
Thank you for coming, beautiful, beloved surprise
Being your mom still rearranges the molecules of me
to a self I could never imagine
before you were born
Just Born
By Sarah Endo
Just born I held you,
amazed that you who had grown inside me,
who I pictured my whole life
could be so unfamiliar
so strange
You were so puzzled-looking
so oddly beautiful
a curious little kitten
all wet and dark
dangling
just an instant as I drew you near
Each of us wondering, perplexed
I was expecting a little me
Instead I found one and only you
How lucky
Thank you for coming, beautiful, beloved surprise
Being your mom still rearranges the molecules of me
to a self I could never imagine
before you were born
Posted by Annmarie at 7/22/2009 10:52 PM 
Categories: today's words, dedication
Tags: Sarah Endo free verse motherhood birth
Categories: today's words, dedication
Tags: Sarah Endo free verse motherhood birth
great poem!!!
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