Friday, June 29, 2018

baby in a basket



All 3 of my daughters
Were born at home
Surreal was the first home birth
Paid for by the Oregon health plan
Nov 1993, she had 3 professional midwives
And a birthing tub for the 30 hour push.
Isis was magically born
During the planetary alignment in
May 2000, haiku. Maui
She had a beautiful generous midwife
Friends with woody harrelson,
We flew 2 weeks b4 the due date,
We left 3 weeks after her birth
It was perfect. Two years later
Mesa was ready
To get born, and our awesome
Renegade midwife had moved to
Portland. Mesa born in 2002,
Only half a mile from the home
Where surreal was born 8 years earlier.
Sarah was on call doula,
2 year old Isis
Half awake as sister was born.
Both heroic moms
All super naturopathic doctors
Birth is not
A place for hospital hooks germy
Strangers. Birth is holy
Intimate contact sport.
So get the story here from
The one paying
Paying
Paying attention to details .
A good dad like me
Is always there in every human heart
Ready to emerge, grow, progress
Learn, defend and feed.
Let humans be animals
Not cogs of a corporate state.
Let nature be nature
Or taste reality chewing your life cord
Floating 42,500 feet in the sky
Like Hawthorne c. Gray
Launching off fort anomaly
Baby in a basket
Ain't we all


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