Oct 29, 2020
Song for Baby-O, Unborn
Sweetheart
when you break thru
you’ll find
a poet here
not quite what one would choose.
I won’t promise
you’ll never go hungry
or that you won’t be sad
on this gutted
breaking
globe
but I can show you
baby
enough to love
to break your heart
forever
Diane di Prima, “Song for Baby-O, Unborn” from Pieces of a Song. (Photo: Diane Di Prima, Kerouac School Summer Writing Program at Naropa, Boulder, Colorado, July 1987. (photo: Allen Ginsberg) /p>