a sonnet about giving birth to my mom (weird word pronunciations: chalaza - ( kuh-lay-zuh ) ; eupnic - ( eup-nic, eu as in 'eu'rope) i carried my mother in gestation elated to relate circumjacent pennyroyal lent a pink carnation of silver umbilical ablation sickle picked to sit inside of the sun septaspelled shell under chalaza thumb split middle finger forever licks one with both pinkies severed holding the drum reflective walls pulse eupnic around me four scars called in regressive surrounding on the ovum rows of pearls surmounting stranded amidst the rift of meeting seas bumbaclout abyss clotting the crowning avulsed out pregnant cannibal drowning