A different kind of first day experience as told to us by Texas writer Mariah Boone, whose poem Eclipse you’ve read here! Read more by Mariah at her blog, Lone Star Ma.
This poem expresses not the first-time mother’s shock at the looming
separation from her infant, but the seasoned mother’s sense of the
surreal. Let’s send this poem out to all those packed-for babies in day
care and the families they come back home to in the evenings.
Packing for Day Care
By Mariah Boone
Filling a box
With diapers and wipies
Extra bottles and nipples for the expressed breastmilk
Family photos for the little plastic sleeves beside the crib
Extra clothes, writing her name on the tags
Like I am sending my three-month old to camp
Unnatural.
Yes!