One Flesh
Keep the flowers on the vine
Wait through the winter
the sun comes out in time
Love is sacrificial
Bodies on the pyre
What isn’t swept away with water
gets purified with fire
One Flesh
Like the sinews connecting
flesh to the bone
Keep me in your clutches
so you never feel alone
In the future I’ll be waiting
like the promises unkept
One flesh, my life and soul
until my death
recovering motherhood 