Poems of Paul Hartal

1. A Fib of Nothing 7/14/2012
2. A Haiku of Chances 7/17/2012
3. A Paradox of Truth 10/2/2011
4. A Prisoner of Sobibor 3/1/2012
5. A Song of Infinity 8/17/2012
6. A Tanka of Eye Color 2/18/2013
7. Absolute Irony 2/17/2012
8. Absurd Breast Cancer Prevention 10/5/2011
9. An Oak Wood Piano on Kristallnacht 10/10/2011
10. And She Said No To Her Lover 1/7/2013
11. Angel in Transit 10/9/2011
12. Apology to a Dandelion 6/30/2012
13. Armenia, Armenia 10/3/2011
14. Art Portals 3/7/2013
15. Atheism Compliments God 10/4/2011
16. Balkan Nightmares 6/8/2012
17. Batman Combats Oscar Wilde 10/4/2011
18. Big Bang with Horizon Problem 10/15/2011
19. Black Tunnel With Light 10/25/2011
20. By Act of Legislation 10/4/2011

Cesarean Section

On a sunny day of Taurus
they cut her abdomen.
With stainless scalpels
the surgeons unlatched her uterus
and out of her slashed womb,
touching with their sterile gloves
the enigma of an enclosed but remote self,
they pulled out the boy crying,
covered with blood,

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