Breast-Feeding Across America — Blackbird Archive

← v5n1, Spring 2006

The ones given most are worst. Electrified, they

won’t grow into it

and everything cancels. Happening

at great speeds—a mother and a child and cows

across space communicating. They know what has happened

and yield a point in life. This is the whole

universe. Under the mother’s skirt—

everlasting. The baby that was ignored and the other,

the first pornographer.

Desperate unstoppable

across her life. We actually lie about it. We live here,

but we lie about it.

family body desire

Sarah Vap

Sarah Vap’s third collection of poems, Faulkner’s Rosary , is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books. She is the author of two books of poetry, American Spikenard (University of Iowa Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize, and Dummy Fire (Saturnalia Books, 2007), winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, teaches at Olympic College, and serves as poetry editor for 42opus .