The Adoptive Mother Thanks the Biological Mother for Their Daughter

There is something
in my body
that breeds
loneliness
every month;
It makes
my body
want;
Complacently
Persistently,
it reappears.
Over and over
and over
each month
a new one.

Don't you know
by now
you stipid egg?

Nothing--
Nothing--
will be
coming!

(c)Sharon Weinstein          1995

from Celebrating Absences

Road Publishers, Painter, VA