Minipoem time

[kiya]

Seahorse

I carried you
Even though
I—
I am no woman;

(I will love all things that grow
And are,
And am,
Not barren)

You taught my roots to drink
My trunk to span realms
My branches to embrace the stars:
We were the world,
Together.

You were never as heavy
As how
The world
Saw me.

Comments

[graydon]

applause

[kiya]

I stared at "I am no woman" for a long long time before I managed to get the Éowyn riff in properly for the poem about my Tolkien-loving firstborn.