Birth
(April 24, 2017)
by Eldridge McClaney
Women are like cushions
Dawning the fertile earth
On a new spring day
New seeds sprouting,
Swelling the ground
With life.
Eldridge M. McClaney is the author of, I Go Back: Stories from a Southern Upbringing; as well as a Toastmaster, storyteller, retired Rochester City School District Teacher and native of Pigeon Creek, Alabama.