by David B. McCoy
It sounds brutal
to us today—
the way Spartans
took infants deemed
too sick and weak
from mothers to
die lonely deaths.
Soon after your
conception, doctors
suggested tests
for Downs Syndrome,
and other defects,
should we want
to abort the pregnancy.
As we listened,
I could see in
your mother's eyes
faint images
of women sobbing
at the base
of distant mountains.
David B. McCoy is a Social Studies teacher in a township school near Massillon, Ohio. For nearly 25 years, David has run Spare Change Press, which in recent years has focused on publishing poetry chapbooks. David is the author of The Geometry of Blue
; the Internet book, Buffalo Time; Ohio Wineries Guidebook, and Voices From Behind the Mask. Purchasing information for these books can be found at www.mccoy.shorturl.com.
