"Breasts"

"Bride"

"Chase"

"First Light"

the sky is pregnant with morning
red placenta lines the horizon
as if light born from blood
struggles through deep channels of night
into the fragile freedom of a river
flowing between long lonely borders
of the first day
and the last

mary ann mulhern, copyright,dec o1

About Mary Ann...
Mary Ann Mulhern is a Windsor teacher and poet.
Her poem, "Freedom's Rail," won first prize in
the 2001 International Freedom Festival poetry contest.
"Memory of Summer" was read on CBC radio, May 12, 2001.
Two of her poems have been published in "Visions",
an anthology published by Writers' Ink.
Two poems were published in "XX", a magazine by
"Windsor Feminist Theatre".
She recently completed the "Maritime Writers' Workshop"
at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.