Hot Times 1
Early Marriage
She cooks
He cooks
1972 Wedding Gift: Cooking For Newlyweds
Hot Dogs Stuffed with Cheese... Bleccccchh! (It's a cheesy book!)
They improvise
He cooks
She cooks
He cooks up a stew one night while she's at school
Ah, the spice of life: What's this in the cupboard?
Tabasco! Yes! a few drops...
Then, on the other hand... a few more...
Maybe some more for the pot
Home for dinner, Aahhhhh,
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! Inedible terribly incredible
Waaaaay tooooo hot stew!
Cut the heat.
Add more meat
Freeze it, halve it.
Dilute it. Un-pollute it
Add new batch o' plain ol' stew. NO spice.
Plenty potatoes might be nice.
Following week, they try again.
Now not painfully hot.
Still makes sweat pour down their brows
Makes the mouth burn for hours
But it's ours... they say
This newlywed heat
They laugh a lot
At the pot
Full of HOT!
Hot Times 2
Transition
Transition is the hardest part, I read
Off goes the nightgown
Off go the socks
Tell Jill when she comes, I tell him, TELL her!
I shiver, put nightgown on again
Forget the frickin socks!
Tell her: Transition is the hardest part, OKAAAAAAAYYY?
Don't wanna scare her
Cheeses, Take this heat awaaaaaayyy.
Off goes the gown.
Jill arrives. Midwife Sue tells her, boil water.
Jill goes to our kitchen
She boils water
Midwife says,
Make Black Cohosh tea
Jill makes Black Cohosh tea
Jill had a daughter by Caesarean seven years ago
Wanted to SEE a birth
Drink the tea, Midwife Sue says
Brings contractions faster
Stronger, Sue says
CHEESES, I yell. If they were any stronger, I'd be YELLING!
Nightgown on again
I hold my breath
Pushing tea aside
Tipping chin to chest, I grunt
Where does that primal sound come from?
I wonder inside my head
There it is again. Deep rumble
DON'T PUSH, Sue says
Let me check again.
NOOOOOO, I yell/grunt
I'm a wanna I wanna Pu-u-u-u-ussssssssshhhhhhhhhhh!
Sue checks dilation anyway
Good to go she says.
Come onto the table, she says
YOU WANT ME TO WHAAATTTT???
I'm hot again
Mouth wide, pant-grunting
Between rushes they move me
Like a beached whale
I rail against the move; against gravity
Gravity sucks
Squatting on table gravity helps
Legs wobbly then strong again.
Purposeful pushes
Then rest back down
My beloved darlin' man at my back
I lean into him
He wipes my brow with a cool cloth
I love him
I hate him
I love him
Remembering a woodcut from Mexico
Couple in labor
She squats, rope in hand
It's thrown over the rafter
Other end tied 'round his balls
Each contraction
She pulls the rope
True ancient practice?
Or New Yorker humor from 1800s?
I squeeze his hand and breathe through the smaller rushes
Conserving energy for bigger waves
They pulse through me. Rhythmic
Each brings this child closer to our arms
Wanna see the head? Sue says
She holds a mirror
Touching my baby's head, I make a curl of
Fine dark hair - gossamer circle
Hello, baby
Another rush and burning, good burn
Heat of pleasure so intense
Hot. Heat! I say inside my head
If my belly had eyebrows, they'd be raised
Head crowning. Crowning glory
Crooning with pleasant heat
I repeat aloud, "Hot. Heeeeeeeaaaatttt!!!"
Our belly person slips into the world
Orgasmically
Into our arms
Into our hearts forever
Into the future
Our future has arrived in a perfect package
Trusting perfection
I don't count fingers
I don't count toes
Some how mama knows
All is well
This new life warms our hearts
That first moment and still
Now, SHE has a daughter
Who is hot stuff!
Devlyn, the Brave. Fierce. Wild. Imaginative child and kind.
Blessings on the Hot Times
That we may seek the cool parts
Life has to offer us warm-blooded hot-headed mammals
Hot Times 3
Heating and Cooling
1990s too hot for nighties
Two daughters Pre-menstrual
One mama peri-menopausal
One husband Pre-occupied
One globe feeling fried
We all tried
Gave it our best shot
Got through the heat of PMS
Got through hot flashes of personal tropics
Got through the Occupy Movement
Post-work Hubby finds hot times at summer camp
Wifey teaches cool yoga and meditation
Daughters find warm and wonderful men
Poor globe warms too fast
Leaving us all aghast
Tweeter Dumb holds the reigns
Up to us to retain old gains
Choosing ways to impact less
On Mother Earth we're but guests
Hot Times 4
Middle of the night
Emotion flares
Hot. Too hot to sleep
I weep
All is awry
Hard as I try
Could this be
The End we see?
Are we lemming-like running
At the sea?
So occluded we cannot tell
That we created our very own hell??
What will it take for personal greed
To subside so we'll all be freed
From the cycle of buy, use, repeat
Do NOT recycle: It takes time
Do NOT re-use: It's inconvenient
Do NOT re-purpose: There are always new things to
BUY, BUY, BUY!
Bye Bye Earth
Bye Bye birth
Bye Bye old lady whispering hush
Bye Bye sweet bowl full of mush
Bye Bye Goon
And Bye Bye moon...
Much too soon
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The website 750words.com charts the words most used in a daily piece of writing. Today's words created a funny poem... maybe...
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Into Jill makes me
midwife more my
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see she stew Sue
tea tell through too
try us,
wanna?
