THIS JUST IN: THE BABY WITH THE SECRET NAME WAS BORN ON MARCH 17, ST. PATRICK'S DAY. HER BEAUTIFUL NAME, ANNOUNCED ONLY UPON HER BIRTH, IS BROOKLYN LARK. WHAT A LUCKY LITTLE FAMILY. To my mothering friends, to Roland, to the baby with the secret name, & to Lilian/Hunter: Now That I Am Forever With Child by Audre Lorde How the days went while you were blooming within me I remember each upon each - the swelling changed the planes of my body and how you first fluttered, then jumped and I thought it was my heart How the days wound down and the turning of winter I recall, with you growing heavy against the wind. I thought now her hands are formed, and her hair has started to curl now her teeth are done now she sneezes. Then the seed opened I bore you one morning just before spring My head rang like a fiery piston my legs were towers between which A new world was passing. Since then I can only distinguish one t