someone painted a west texas sky over california today

and clouds and clouds
just miles

green dreaming reaching for roads
the lonely limbs of december days

and the red rooftops below

  

There is a baby dead, there
within the cloth, within the womb
Too much is wrapped up in this root
that brings a death, a birth

Behind the mother’s head, the braids hang still
One child is here
No father, no sister
a grimace to the world

This cannot be a child.

Whatever feathers and rain and winds that whirl
in old sack cloths left
in potato fields to rot

This cannot be a child.
  

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