“This Golden Age” by Allie Marini Batts

Pregnancy, like
one of the Dutch Masters,
rendered me as a still life on canvas:
with strokes in dry brush,
a spinster’s silhouette
unmarred
by distended bellies
or mother’s milk.

-Allie Marini Batts

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