“Antepartum: Girl,” by Faith Gómez Clark (Poetry ’19)

Faith Gómez Clark, a 2019 poetry alum, was recently featured in Zocalo Public Square. Read an excerpt of “Antepartum: Girl” below:

Antepartum: Girl

The ultrasound technician probes
the mother’s bulging belly,
wiggles it, trying
to get the fetus to share
the secret between its legs.

But the mother already knows.
She thinks of her mother
and of her grandmother,
both dog-chained to the ferocious
hunger of their masters.

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/08/27/antepartum-girl-faith-gomez-clark-poem/chronicles/poetry/?