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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

New Baby

Small red and wrinkled mass of wrath,

Indignant now to find you have been hurled
From soft security into an alien world,

Subdue your fury. Rest assured your path
Is guarded still by her who held you curled

Contented in that warm, soft other world.

Know too, the hand that soothes you now

Will hold you steady till your stumbling feet
Have learned to walk steadfastly and to beat

Their own way through the world. Will teach
You how

To scale the obstacles that you will meet.

So curb your infant in, for life is sweet.

Grandchild

By what mysterious alchemy
Wee offshoot from my family tree,

Do you combine with many varied traits
In harmony that now eradicates

The differences of folks you never knew
To make the whole new person that is you?

My own self from your eyes looks back at me

And in you I know immortality.

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