IMOGENE’S NOTEBOOK

The Cord Between Us

A poem

Photo by bady abbas on Unsplash

From my desire to be
connected forever to your infancy, our birth,
I kept the piece of umbilical cord
when it fell from your small navel.
In some cultures, these remnants of connection are planted,
given back to the warmth of moist earth
bringing it all again to the center,
that wish for continuance.

But I kept ours
in a house full of the things
that try to define us.
And even in the best lives
these other things are mere momento.
But this one, ours, is by no means just that.
God bids us make our worlds of more than stone
and of greater weight like light –
our admiration, our longing –
objects each of such fierce and undefinable love.

Eaffanato
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