The winner of CBC's Poetry Prize wrote a heartbreaking poem about her stillborn baby. You can read it here (Via cbcbooks)
This city's occasional snow demands we slow downsince the small pulsing furl of him stopped in me.in the hospital room, only one heart left beating.We had been saving the surprise, assumingbut still inside mine, the choice comes quick as all otherand losing him: between diagnosis, black and whiteI first float, your middle name but not on our optimistic list,a nickname we cannot control.
Agreed in a moment thenshe's trained to name what's already lost beforethe hospital bracelet never meant to fit, all the bitseach inch. The sky's off-white as a page.I had dipped my bleeding bodythis world unmarked save the trace of ash, footprintsof his imagined future shut. Two months old today,how this name would be with us a lifetime longerwill remember to say, the name on donation slipshow incapacitated.
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