I press my ear
against her belly
hoping to hear
some whale song,
and I feel a tremor --
the slight push
from inside.
At the ultrasound,
the rapid thump
of her heartbeat
drums through me
as the bean
pulses on the screen.
“Sounds from the Deep” was printed in Ditch'em, No. 7 of Inwood Indiana. Pick up the paperback from Prolific Press; the stories and poems published online are free to read here.
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