Poems of Paul Hartal

161. The Messiah in Strasshof 10/6/2011
162. The Mix-Up 10/10/2011
163. The Moon Remembers the Astronauts 10/4/2011
164. The Optimistic Cucumber 4/27/2012
165. The Phantom of Time 11/28/2012
166. The Philosopher’s True Scotsman 10/12/2011
167. The Phosphorus Bomb 2/12/2013
168. The Restaurant Keeper 11/13/2011
169. The River of Permanence 4/27/2012
170. The Royal Air Force Hero and the Luftwaffe General 10/15/2011
171. The Science of Freedom 10/6/2011
172. The Searcher 10/4/2011
173. The Seven Shortest Poems In The World 10/12/2011
174. The Silence Of Love 9/30/2011
175. The Sobbing God 10/9/2011
176. The Sunset Splashes 10/4/2011
177. The Test of Love 10/9/2011
178. The Universe Writes A Poem 6/1/2012
179. The White Rose of Stalingrad 10/9/2011
180. The Winter Talks to the Spring 5/20/2012

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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