I made love to the wind
and gave birth to a hurricane.
Warm,
bloody placenta
laying on cold, hard
hospital floor
is all that’s left of our
dangerous relationship.
We both knew it would
end this way
pregnant with stillborn hope.
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Torie Cooper has a Masters degree in Wildlife Management from Macquarie University, Sydney and divides her time between Sydney and Phoenix, Arizona. Torie’s nature poetry has been published in The Avocet.
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