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YOUNG MOTHER: LONDONThe birth accomplished, can such strangenesshave been the familiarity she loved so long?Could she have known a negroid headwas grinding stubble inside her?Confronted now with the living factthe blonde wife's tears betray how little she suspectedher husband's thrust of greater impactthan her own persistent nourishment and blood.That alien body violates the lawof mother's dominance, her deeper rightto likeness in the child, her primitiveidentifying with the fleshfor which her own flesh parted then unfurled.Yet the skin tightens on her breast,she feels the milk flood up inside,the baby's hunger stabs, and they join in love.RODNEYHALL12 WESTERLY, No. 1, MARCH, 1968

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