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Firstborn
by Sally Goade

Long ago you cried on
Your first night home;
I tried to heed advice
And let you wail.

Laying alone,
I imagined your greeting
To this world as emptiness,
And I could not leave you.
Snuggled to my breast,
You rooted and cooed.

Now your cry is separated,
Far, far away,
And there is nothing I can do
To soften the world.


Sally Goade is an Associate Professor of English at Russell Sage College for Women in Troy, New York. Her research area is women's popular romance, and she is currently editing a collection of essays, entitled Empowerment versus Oppression: 21st Century Views of Popular Romance Novels, for Cambridge Scholars Press. Her individual book, Negotiating With Romance: Authors Transforming the Genre, also for Cambridge, is due out in 2007. Her poetry has been published in Roofbeam Magazine ("Victim" and "Runaway," 1998) and in campus literary magazines.