Poems of Paul Hartal

21. Camp Concerts 10/4/2011
22. Carpet Bombing 3/14/2013
23. Cesarean Section 9/29/2011
24. Change 10/4/2011
25. Chitchat on Ice Cream and Love 1/26/2013
26. Colors of Silence 10/3/2011
27. Crescent Fib 7/30/2012
28. Critics 2/18/2012
29. Dark Sky 9/30/2011
30. Descartes' Despair 10/6/2011
31. Dove of Peace 12/12/2012
32. Early June Girls 10/10/2011
33. Endangered Species: The moon 7/5/2012
34. Every Man Remains an Island 1/19/2013
35. Fading Chlorophyll In Maple Leaves of Autumn 10/10/2011
36. Farewell of a Cottonwood 7/1/2012
37. Fate Hanged on a Hairbreadth 7/17/2012
38. Fear 9/29/2011
39. Fib with Accidental Rhyme 12/7/2012
40. Flowers of Horror 10/7/2011

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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