Saturday 11 February 2012: Love set you going like a fat gold watch..........

Went to Darlington to visit Laura and Peter, Natalia and the New Baby James.
Enjoyed seeing Maggie and Catherine also............we all had a fab time.
These cup cakes were made by Natalia (4) and Maggie.
Thank You very much x

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

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