Eleanor Vincent's posterous http://eleanorvincent.posterous.com Most recent posts at Eleanor Vincent's posterous posterous.com Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:19:45 -0800 New poem http://eleanorvincent.posterous.com/new-poem http://eleanorvincent.posterous.com/new-poem Hieroglyphs for Meghan I bob and weave in the winter-laden street retracing the hill I climbed each night to bring on labor. When I step back and squint I see the rooms that sheltered us exposed to raw December. Pale and clammy, our house has shrunk. The siding’s gone shabby, dark blue shutters an afterthought. Or have I grown Gulliver-like? Decades ago a hot August day swallowed me whole. The midwife coxed me open to admit your blue face expelling you into light. Breath flew into the room. The porch I thought was huge sits ten feet from a Lilliputian street not wide enough for two cars to pass without scraping paint. I see the neighbor’s drilled holes in his walls, dun-colored polka dots for blown-in cellulose. Good, I think. Someone is keeping things up. Insulation works on memory too. Our tiny bodies in motion in a past that abides in the town where we left it. 12.27.2010

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