Like a knotted handkerchief,

Like a pit-bull pup.

My new baby, my new baby.

Blue skin, fat folds, bunched up.

My new baby, my new baby.

Like a slasher flick,

Like a trip gone wrong.

My new baby, my new baby.

Punch drunk, white walls,

Fucked up, so small.

My new baby, my new baby.

 

I’m interrupted, out of step.

My hips don’t swing when I walk anymore.

My new baby mewls, I tut, I sigh.

It calls to me, I’m tired, I cry.

I’m a milk machine,

I’m a beating heart,

I’m a pair of arms,

I’m somehow apart.

 

But like an extra head

She grows on me.

A new way of thinking,

New eyes to see.

New mummy speak,

I sing, I coo.

I wipe the sick

And sniff for poo.

 

Like a landlocked mermaid

I strap on some legs.

My new baby, my new baby.

Like a rising star,

Like a god to her,

Like Mother bloody Nature.

My new baby, my baby,

Mine.