LULLABY FOR ZOE

• Like a chubby cherub
• on an old map
• she puffs out spume.


• Like a volley of hail
• or a thunderclap
• her intestines boom.


• Navigate
• to the storm‘s hub:
• massage, palpate,
• tap, rub
• till the gusts abate.


• Rock, rock,
• peacefully
• on a calm sea.

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