The man giving birth in the dark <br />has died <br />& come back <br />to life again, <br /> <br />is stretching out his arms <br />in the dark <br />as if to embrace <br />favorite ghosts. <br /> <br />His heart stops <br />& starts. <br />Once more <br />he has been pardoned <br /> <br />for nothing. <br />It is my father <br />making the darkness <br />into daughters.<br /><br />Erica Jong<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-man-giving-birth-in-the-dark/
