Both Utmost Sanctuary

BY MARY KRANE DERR

for the Consistent Life 25th Anniversary Conference

Never mind

and never heart

the prearranged war
 
 that splits and splits
 
 
 the literal cord
 
 of one lifebody from
 
 the quite familial
 
 other & smaller one.
 
 
 Instead, why not
 
 negate either into
 
 an insensate clump
 
 of merest cells,

why not create both

utmost sanctuary:

the woman-with-child,

the child-with-woman,

who subsist not singly

but doubly human,

whose joint faces call,

the invisible smaller

nested within

the visible larger,

call for

a multiplied,

all-seeing,

all-hearing,

responsibility of peace

be robustly with

us all/the epochs

of both

our pre-

and post-

partum lives.

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