this morning i felt a pain in my stomach. on the right side. i placed my fingers there to ease it out. it moved. i followed it towards the bottom of my belly where i am as firm as a unripened mango. my uterus widening since we met that rainy night in the city of brother love. we had no place else to go in that tiny bedroom. we did not want to go anywhere else but inside each other. and walls collapsed, doors to other rooms opened. now my fingers follow a pain i am trying to ease for her or him and me and you. it does. it leaves as soon as i detect a heart beat, as tiny as the room we made it in.