Two Poems
Andrea Kneeland

Sketch

breech birth: (1 leg shadows forth, a sundial
like blood (Mother kneeling, plaintive scream,

(can Cows scream?) descension of sun, inability)
to speak, guilt) of inaction, apparent be(coming

still (birth: practicality of beauty, face, broken,
spurts (of bone, (white) tri-globe stiff as (bleach

laundered sheet) buckled legs, man)ipulation,
bruise outside) of flesh, com)pound fullness.


Failure

Why are you so upset
my dad said stop

crying at least
you don't have a baby