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I hear your heart beating everywhere: An ode to pregnancy, and the beginnings of panic.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019





I hear your heart beating everywhere

When we're apart I can close my eyes and hear you there

I hear your heart beating everywhere

Everywhere I go

People say that I must be in love
The way I forget what we're speaking of
The way I stand there smiling straight ahead
And walk away without hearing a word they said
~ Jackson Browne ~



Horses galloping on the plains.
A train engine.
Kind of life a muffled French siren.
An underwater video from the Discovery Channel.

No, this isn't some obscure puzzle. I'm trying to put into words the sound that is constantly and consistently in my ears and on my mind: the beat of my son's heart.