March 2019
I am not certain that I am the best judge of my own work, but I will say that “Gravity,” is my most anthologized and reprinted poem. When the title that I had chosen for my second “new & selected” was unusable because I couldn't make the poem that would have made the title make sense come out right, I looked to “Gravity” for the book and used the poem as a sort of foreword. “Gravity" is the only poem of my own that I can reliably recite, and it does express my deepest thoughts about life.
Gravity
What binds me to this earth
are the hands of my children,
as I hold my mother
holding her mother
back to the mother
who begat us all.
This is gravity.
This is why we call the earth Mother,
why all rising is a miracle.
© 2019 Donna Hilbert
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