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Womb

  1. Standing in my water grave, my right hand facing heaven;
  2. My left hand points to tiny waves and holds the wrist that lead in.
  3. Straddled across time and space, the threshold to me beckons.
  4. Death to birth and sleep to wake, embracing the rejection.
  5. Abandoning all vice and crave to welcome an ascension,
  6. Opening the woollen gate to step toward concession.
  7. Falling from a token cross and buried in a tomb.
  8. Resurrected from life lost, birthed from a second womb.
  9. Former me, with all his flaws, takes with him all that gloom,
  10. And from the mountain trail withdraws to dissipating doom.
  11. But newest me with dewey awe in nascent sprouting bloom—
  12. Water, blood, and spirit crossed for Mother’s gracious boon.

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By Kim Siever

Kim Siever is an independent queer journalist based in Lethbridge, Alberta, and writes daily news articles, focusing on politics and labour.

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