Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Time Machine

In the middle of my sentence
shape shifts, time collapses.
You sit cross legged on floor,
nursing you sleeping son
and suddenly I feel the warm
weight of your baby head,
the hungry suckling of your
hot lips at my own nipple.
Family is a time machine.


Victoria Hendricks
January 18, 2011

10 comments:

  1. Time is indeed relative. Sometimes a second feels like and hour and an hour feels like a second.
    The same goes for time with family.
    Beautiful poem.

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  2. Yes, family is a time machine going forward and back but I never thought about it like that until I read your poem. It must be especially striking when you and your daughter look so much alike. Nice writing.

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  3. Moving words. Nature has no time for time.

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  4. Wow! So touching and I can see how this time machine works within families, especially after seeing my great granddaughter!

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  5. I like this poem very much. The concept of family as time machine is fascinating. Some patterns repeat......

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  6. Awesome poem, Victoria. I love it, family time machine.

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  7. Oh this is incredible!!!!!! I so relate! It all goes by so fast! I really love this poem!

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  8. Beautiful truth. It is true. Seems I just birthed mine and now they are birthing theirs.

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  9. Thank you all for the warm comments and the connection. And thanks again Mary for naming my blog blog of the week.

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  10. Beautiful and sensitive poem! Excellent!

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