id.

Do you know of George Bernard Shaw's description of dancing?
And the slender provacation of the waltz?
Your partner will remain monogamous
thoughout the song.
So Perverse.

Freud was right about the ego of men
the conflict of women
and the science of sex, as described by Kinsey.

But all the while
I clutch in my arms, maternal questions:
Am I a mother?
of children I'll never see.

I am,
but not from the womb of anything,
not even mine.

And know my children are all blind, deaf, and mute
- already so beautiful.