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About the poet Caroline Glen has been a resident on the Gold Coast for a number of years. For six years she was coordinator of Gold Coast Writers Assn. Inc. Poetry Group. She has been successful in many competitions and enjoys giving performance readings of her poetry. Her other published poetry books are Along the Way, On Seagulls' Wings, Caviar for Breakfast. Read a sample: ADDICTION
He never wanted
to enter the world. He wanted to rest safe in
the womb’s quiet, its safe place. When they said
he and mother had one day left, they sliced
her. Pulled him out and up and smacked him
into a first cry. They disturbed his dreaming. He
never knew a first push from dark to light. His own
work for survival. They drained
his smooth, round body and put him at mother’s
breast. He clung there. Stayed there six months. Sucked
and cried. Cried as though he knew what pain
was out there waiting. His room wept. His
parents shook. When he stopped crying he played. Another sudden
rip. From mother to another. Too cold, too
certain. He missed mother. And family sharing was
strange, and too hard. Later, when he ran his fingers
down the flowing skirts of freedom, he looked for
the softest folds. The folds where he could keep
playing. Keep dreaming. He wrapped into them, and
travelled away, cocooned from family who would ask
questions. With a bitterness biting, and a dummy on his
tongue, each breath became an addict’s breath. Each
step a backward step. A protracted rush back to the
womb. To its quiet. Its safe place. But he never found it.
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