Child in the Poem by Elisa Biagini

Child in the

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Child in the
placenta, child
under cover
in the soft
peel of skin
made hard by the
forest, red
as if scalded,
so red you swim in
your blood,
new-made, baby
ladled out here.

Translation: 2006, Elisa Biagini

Elisa Biagini
Saturday, September 9, 2017
poem poems child red forest
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