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Welcome to Butterfly Birth! I provide birth and doula services in the Portland Metro area. Please find out more about my doula services and blessingways by visiting the links on the left. My most recent blog posts are listed below. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Recent Blog Posts
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01 May, 2009
Woman to Child
You who were darkness warmed my flesh
where out of darkness rose the seed.
Then all a world I made in me;
all the world you hear and see
hung upon my dreaming blood.
There moved the multitudinous stars;
and coloured birds and fishes moved
There swam the sliding continents.
All time lay rolled in me, and sense,
and love that knew not its beloved.
O node and focus of the world;
I hold you deep within that well
you shall escape and not escape--
that mirrors still your sleeping shape;
that nurtures still your crescent cell.
I wither and you break from me;
yet though you dance in living light
I am the earth, I am the root,
I am the stem that fed the fruit,
the link that joins you to the night.
from The Book of Birth Poetry, Edited and With an Introduction by Charlotte Otten. A Bantam Book/April 1995
