Mothers at the pool - Poem

National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 1999 by Mary C. Ferris

   How beautiful, the new mothers
   with their babies,
   sunning themselves around the pool
   of the apartment complex,
   absorbed in their infants,
   comparing notes.

   Too soon they will put them
   in day care and return to work
   to help with car payments
   and grocery bills.

   But now they are deep in enjoyment
   of their motherhood,
   of their offspring.
   Pass them softly.
   Disturb not their communion.

--Mary C. Ferris Chapala, Mexico3