P9 - Eva Kwong, Navel of the Universe

Eva Kwong
Chinese/American, b. 1954

Navel of the Universe
2018
Glazed coil-built stoneware
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2019.10

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Navel of the Universe
by Mary Ellen Greenwood


Lucky egg-that-would-be-you split in two

cells divide

inside where blood-filled

cord, two feet of pulsing line

pumping life to growing you

daysandweeksandmonths

emerging

air filling wet lungs

sterile blade slicing cord.

End of day

you lift your sunglow arms

just high enough

red shirt rises

soft skin peeks

reveals the round depression

midsection scar

where a lifeline

invisible

connects us still.