hermionesviolin: (Isaiah 9:6)
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(First Trimester)

[we] are watching a documentary about home
birth when [you] first feel [neni] kick // embryo

of hope // they say plastic is the perfect creation
because it never dies // litters the beaches

of o'ahu, this "gathering place" // the doctor
recommends a c-section // in the sea, plastic multiplies

into smaller pieces, leaches estrogenic and toxic
chemicals // if [we] cut open the bellies of whales

and large fish, what fragments will [we] find, derived
from oil, absorbed into tissue // because plastic

never dissolves, every product ever made still exists,
somewhere, today // i wish my daughter was made

of plastic so that she will survive [our] wasteful
hands // so that she, too, will have a great future

-from New Poets of Native Nations (ed. Heid E. Erdrich) -- apparently a slightly different version of this poem from the one in from unincorporated territory [lukao]? at least based on the publisher's website:

(first trimester)

[we] are watching a documentary
about home birth when [you] first feel

[neni] kick // if our doctor recommends
a “c-section” \\ if [we] cut open

the bellies of whales and birds,
what fragments will [we] shore //

plastic multiplies, leaches toxins, litters
the beaches of oʻahu : this gathering

place, this embryo
\\ plastic is the “perfect”
creation because it never dies // i wish

our daughter was derived
from oil so that she will survive

our wasteful hands // so that
she, too, will have a “great future”
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