Song for Baby-O, Unborn
Sweetheart
when you break thru
you’ll find
a poet here
not quite what one would choose.
I won’t promise
you’ll never go hungry
or that you won’t be sad
on this gutted
breaking
globe
but I can show you
baby
enough to love
to break your heart
forever
Credit
From Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems (City Lights Publishers, 1990). Copyright © 1990 Diane di Prima. Used with permission of Sheppard Powell.
Author
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima was born August 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, the only daughter and eldest child of Francis and Emma di Prima. She attended Hunter College High School in New York City, where she began writing.
Date Published
01/01/1990