foetus
you are
a clenched
fist
unfolding
to form
an outstretched
hand
waiting
to be
held
orbital
month by month
we plot
each phase
of your becoming
tracing every
motion or new
direction as i
rotate around you
confined to this
constant
distance yet
measured closeness
wobbling
on the tilted
axis
of fatherhood
Andrew James lives and works as a non-fiction editor in London. He tweets @andrews_story.
