Milk and Honey #1

Milk and Honey

When my mother was pregnant

with her second child I was four

I pointed at her swollen belly confused at how

My mother had gotten so big in such little time

My father scooped me in his tree trunk arms

 and said the closest thing to God on this earth

Is a woman’s body it’s where life comes from

And to have a grown man tell me something

So powerful at such a young age

Changed me to see the entire universe rested at my mother’s feet.