After a long struggle to reach a full-term pregnancy, I wrote this poem in praise of my wife and our first child. I try to capture the physical and emotional trauma of what we lost and the intergalactic drama of what we discovered in the anticipation and experience of the pre-birth
full term.    

Jesse Breite’s poetry has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, Fourteen Hills, and Rhino. His chapbook is The Knife Collector (FutureCycle, 2013). Jesse teaches high school in Asheville, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

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