make mothering.com your
home page
 discuss | experts | activism | news | book reviews | peggy's kitchen | poems | shopping guide
  current issue
pregnancy & birth | new baby | growing child | body & soul
 

editorial columns

family tools

community features


SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE MOTHERING NEWSLETTER

subscribe
remove
poems

Cosmos

Nursing, I am a galaxy—a grace
of milky stars rivering
through my breasts

toward the risen moon
of my baby’s mouth. They have found
their night-sky in the perfection
of his hunger.

There is no vaster universe
than this.

Rose Meyer


Featured Product
Klean Kanteen and Avent, an unbeatable combination for a safer, healthier sippy at nubiusorganics.com
Rockin Baby Sling

BORN

current issue | article index | about us | advertising | submission guidelines | calendar | books | back issues | employment