Because baby dolphins emerge from amniosis into a giant sac surrounding continents...
—the question’s goal is faith
Because sidewinders birth their young alive, but have no womb, only eggs held within...
—to name, and therefore limit
Because seahorse fathers incubate eggs, liberate their mates...
—clarity, distillation

...a man might hold a child in his gut
(like a kangaroo pouches her unformed infant),
its parasitic head buried by his navel
leeching at an ulcer...

©2002 Matthew Ephraim Duncan