year two
(from a poem for a daughter)
Why does a mother need a daughter?
Heart’s needle, hostage to fortune,
freedom’s end. Yet nothing’s more perfect
than that bleating, razor-shaped cry
that delivers a mother to her baby.
The bloodcord snaps that held
their sphere together. The child,
tiny and alone, creates the mother.
A woman’s life is her own
until it is taken away
by a first particular cry.
Then she is not alone
but part of the premises
of everything there is:
a time, a tribe, a war.
When we belong to the world
we become what we are.
(Anne Stevenson Poems 1955 – 2005)
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then she is not alone…
erica
September 16, 2008 at 11:17 pm
happy, happy birthday beautiful bella! oh how they grow so fast. this poem is really lovely & quite a treasure. i have something to send to her, but i need your new address. please send it to me. xoxo.
Dianna
September 17, 2008 at 2:32 am
picasso. this is one of my favorite drawings..
r
October 27, 2008 at 12:20 pm
what is the name of this drawing? and do you know where is it now?
irene
April 4, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Mother & Child & 4 studies for a right hand. Published by shorewood Publishers, Distributed by Penn Prints, N.Y. # 50358. Fogg Art Musueum, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard. Its very hard to read some of this info but , i hope it helps . It ‘s one of my favorite drawings, Plus I collect HANDS, double joy. I would like to know more about my drawing that I have.
Teresa :)
April 20, 2010 at 8:27 pm
it is picasso’s mother and child and four sketches. i believe the original is on display somewhere in paris.
the ugly earring
April 4, 2009 at 10:34 pm