My soft and velvety first born,
I look down on you lying across
my newly flattened stomach.
You are the most beautiful thing I’ve
ever seen. We both have washed back up
from the shores of death and lie utterly
spent and strangely, and remarkably,
still alive. I would go to the Doorstep
of Hell to Protect and Love You.
I am born also into a New Country.
I am your Mother, my Precious,
Darling Child.
And you are the most Beautiful Child
in the Whole World.
Catharine Quillen Dornin is a retired music teacher, a mother of five and a concert pianist who gave her Carnegie Hall debut in 1990. She has been writing poems seriously for several years. This is her first magazine submission
