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Tag Archives: Infant mother bond

Children, motherhood, Poetry

Mother’s Milk

December 6, 2016Jennifer Butler BasileBabies, Breastfeeding, Infant mother bond, Mise en place, moment in time, poem, Poetry, self vs. mother, Snapshot, stillness 3 Comments

This tiny little person

latched on to my body

as long as I am wide

Miniature fist clenched around a rib of fabric,

holding on for dear life

Eyes arched in ecstasy,

then drooped in slumber

More parasitic than symbiotic,

but the sweetest symbol ever seen

 

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