Lorraine McGuigan

Still-Birth

Above my 
hospital bed 
a spider
is spinning
a new web 
from angle 
to angle 
an endless 
confinement 
and now 
your sheets 
a white shroud 
as I watch 
a spider 
weaving 
the angles 
of her world 
in the space 
of a corner.

Lorraine McGuigan began writing in 1988 when her six children no longer  demanded daily attention. Her stories and poems have been published in Australia and in the USA, including Ulitarra, Southerly, Black Bear Review and Cimarron Review. She is editor of the Monash University journal, Poetry Monash.

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Isaiah 61:1-3

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