From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended
poem centered on the experience of parenthood. "What is learned?
I'll return for my son; / at school, at three thirty-eight, bells
will ring & run / days over years." Using unpredictable
syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, Day of the Child captures the
sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth.
Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes
a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an
ultrasound image, "a frieze on screen." A mother cycles through her
own often dissonant identities: "soother, watcher, blame-taker."
And both mother and child assume another, significant role:
artistic collaborators. For Day of the Child is a poem co-created
by child and mother, offering a space in which each's stories,
thoughts, words-"unbound / by Time & time's
delineations"-tangle together. In which apartness-"Oh indivisible
divisible," the presence of another heart beating inside the
mother's own body-is continually negotiated. And in which the
mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and
the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave
pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of
raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a
river "breaks into many suns, the sun." For, as the child asserts,
"love is a circl[e] round / as a Ball." Challenging the notion that
parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, Day of the Child makes
of childrearing "a refrain I reframed each day with new words."
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