The Correct Position after Sex

  by Joseph Gascho

Little boy blue

(not just the shirt)

when he was born.

Half the blood

coursed through the hole

that did not close

six months after

egg and sperm

first met.

I scan his echo,

see the shadow of the fix.

sewn in

by doctor-seamstress.

Stitches sure,

sturdy cloth,

no leak in 20 years.

Would he have needed

knife and needle

had mom not turned in bed

that blissful night,

beneath the patchwork quilt

instead of staying prone?

  The Hippocrates Book of the Heart, 2018,   p 122, (Accompanying echo image on cover of book)