Early Memories by Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya
you won't remember
how you were freezing
the first night home from the hospital;
you won't remember
how all the times you woke up hungry
and had to learn how to cry
you will remember
how you were comforted
and how my voice, my smell, and my milk
lulled you back to safety.
and how the world of the sharp sounds, sweet smells, and cold sensations
has become as soft and snuggly as my womb.
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya is a bilingual poet, educator and caregiver. Yevgeniya has taught at Laguardia Community College, CUNY as an adjunct instructor and was an administrative assistant at Leonia United Methodist church. Currently she is a homeschooling mom of an energetic toddler. Yevgeniya's poems have been published or forthcoming in Amethyst Review, Ancient Paths, First Literary Review-East, Time of Singing, Page and Spine, and many other publications, and were nominated for the Pushcart Prize two times. Check out her blog at ypoetry.weebly.com.