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Six Songs for the Unborn.(Poem)

 
Six songs for the unborn 
 
 
The author describes her spiritual orientation as follows: "I am a 
Quaker. For me, spirituality is a loving and compassionate attitude 
towards life. To cherish the flesh is to know God." 
 
To learn more about the Quaker faith, see Rachel MacNair's article "A 
Lively Concern: the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)" in this 
issue. 
 
"Dream" originally appeared in Harmony. "Conception" originally appeared 
in Sisterlife. 
 
 
1. Dream 
 
We were once as fragile 
 as paper lanterns 
  twirling slowly 
 
in a closed cradle-- 
 and our only skill 
  was not to know 
 
of our existence. 
 Born out of substance 
  into metaphor, 
 
we carry the absence of ...

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