Why I Will Have Children
because it feels so complete to have a tiny heart beating next to yours
and tiny hands in your hair
and tiny feet stepping carelessly in your lap because pain isn’t a problem to them,
and because I fall unfailingly for the wants and needs, the
I’m climbing this tree, look out the window, here is my paintinig
let me try.
and I respond so quickly to that possible fall, the wobbling chair, I run even though they don’t belong to me,
because I value that so much love and possiblity
can be neatly bound up in a new person,
coming quickly into the world like ee cummings colts
and just as quickly dancing out of it, along the seams
until you grab them, lift them down, scold them, hold them,
this is why I will have children.
