| For about 8 years I worked off and on at the | | | | times that I begin to like the poem, where before I did |
| department store Sears on a part time basis.It was | | | | not like it so much or found it lacking. I do hope you like |
| mainly on. A few poems about observations while on | | | | this one as it is an amusement. So as I say, herewith |
| duty as a sales clerk were written. Herewith, a poem | | | | the poem: |
| from 2002 on what I saw at Sears. There were only | | | | Round is not a Pregnant Shapeby Peter Menkin |
| a few of these poems, originally posted on the Atlantic | | | | Three pregnant womenlast night at the store. |
| Monthly Writer's Workshop (now defunct). I am sorry I | | | | Each carried her self,proving round is nota pregnant |
| did not write more of them, as 7 years later I like this | | | | shape. |
| one and another. | | | | I watch the pregnant womenas they shop, and |
| One can't call two or three poems a series, and | | | | walk,move about with childrenor alone. |
| because I keep poems I've written on my computer, I | | | | This is part of mystore duties, I tell myself: |
| will search to see if there are more. Some people think | | | | Pregnant woman watching. |
| it unfair to be revising or looking at poems 7 or 8 years | | | | There are ovals, and mountains,abundance, and full. |
| old. One poet remarked to me that this wasn't so | | | | There are heavier, and moving,ripe and blooming. |
| unusual, to keep an image or a sense of a poem in | | | | Some are a little bit more. |
| ones mind for years. | | | | Amid this there is somethingnew, alive, awakening to |
| My way is to return to work written sometimes as | | | | twoand wonderment moving towardsbirth. |
| long ago as 8 years or even nine, and revise. I find at | | | | |