local_library Judy, 1947

by Camille Renshaw

Published in Issue No. 4 ~ July, 1996

January’s labor pains
Aren’t pretty
When you sting with cold and fever
And cry out
With the wonder of white trash
Alone.

Awaking
The mystery is over and January
Holds little pale feet that shake
And fingers that curl up
Around your young husband
Beside you.

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Camille Renshaw is from Nashville, TN, where she also completed her graduate work in English at Vanderbilt University. An avid hiker, she had just returned from hiking the Appalachian Trail when her first poems in Pif Magazine were published. Camille later became managing editor of Pif Magazine.