All posts tagged fertility

Sterility’s Dead

have it on good authority
that the plum tree is pregnant
and so is the mighty oak at the
far end of the garden.
Watch with me their nine month,
See the fruit come to splendor,
leaves to color,
and then doctor gravity, doctor wind,
will jerk the babies free,
slap their backs for good measure.

And yes, the fence is with child,
even where it sags,
and 1 speak for the garden when I say
a flower is due any day now.
Scratch a newspaper and births pop up.
Even songs on the radio
just can’t help being fertile.
Listen to that chorus
and tell me that drum kicks
not an umbilical cord snapping.

Feel your stomach if you will
but remember the kettle will
soon hiss steam child,
the coffee pour from deep inside
its egg sac.
In this world, nothing’s sterile for long.
I kiss you, step away.
See, you just had me.

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John Grey is an Australian born poet who works as financial systems analyst. Recently published in Poem, Caveat Lector, Prism International and the horror anthology, “What Fears Become”, he has work upcoming in Potomac Review, Hurricane Review and Pinyon. His other contributions to Snake-Oil Cure can be found here.

Exposure № 089: Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth

The conclusion of Naama Sarid-Maleta’s emotional series of photos dealing with the experience of going through fertility treatments and IVF. These images articulate without words the difficulty and emotional impact of this process.

My Lonely Needles, Like Tears I shed

Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the Earth

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Naama Sarid-Maleta’ is an architect. She began an intense career as a documentary and conceptual photographer in Madrid (2008) and has contributed to magazines and publications in Europe and Israel. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Ukraine, Spain and Israel. Her sustained challenge as an artist is the desire to “build dreams” in visual codes. She had developed a scheme of work based on the interaction of enforcement procedures and the organizations of architecture and a conceptual result more expressionistic and plastic in its nature. Her husband is also an architect and photographer from Cuba, and they work as a team with multidisciplinary projections.

Her other contributions to Snake-Oil Cure can be found here.

Exposure № 087: The Art of Being a Woman

Naama Sarid-Maleta’ brings us this emotional series of photos that deal with the experience of going through fertility treatments and IVF. These images articulate without words the difficulty and emotional impact of this process.

My life is the silence of waiting

The future is a black space for many dreams

Two dreams I once had

The art of being a woman

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Her other contributions to Snake-Oil Cure can be found here.

Exposure № 086: A child covered with nostalgia and carnations

This week, Naama Sarid-Maleta’ bravely shares her experience with fertility treatments and the process of IVF, something which is very emotional and difficult to express, but which has inspired some of her most beautiful and challenging work.