A
Birth
by
Paul Stevens
From littered
fragments -- woven
--
Such oddments
of the dead --
A reconstructed
life -- of me
--
Gestated in his
head.
He
analysed my hair,
My fingernails
-- for dust.
Their tale --
a second birth
for me,
More gentle than
the first.
A
child -- of his
laboratory --
Freed from the
womb of earth,
I gathered up
my errant soul
--
And stepped --
gravely forth.
©
2007 by Paul Stevens
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About the Author
Paul
Stevens
was born in Yorkshire,
but lives in Australia.
He has an Honours
Degree in English
from the University
of Sydney, and
teaches Literature,
Historiography,
and Ancient History.
His recent poetry
is in The Barefoot
Muse, WORM, Lily,
The Argotist,
The New Formalist,
as well as the
forthcoming Poemeleon,
The Centrifugal
Eye and Contemporary
Sonnet. He is
the Poetry Editor
(with Nigel Holt)
of The Shit
Creek Review
+ II.
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