A Gleam in the Eye
Poems for a First Baby
Paperback: 86 pp.
Published: 1992
This tender book chronicles the aspirations of a hopeful couple as they share in the anticipation and anxiety of pregnancy, the pain, amazement, and pride of delivery, and the wonderment and joy of watching their first child's development from conception to age one, including her birth and homecoming, her visits with grandparents, and her first gestures and attempts at crawling, walking, and talking. Anyone who is a parent, or about to become one, will appreciate this incredibly loving, heartfelt look at "the glory and the dream" of early childhood.
Praise:
I enjoyed A Gleam in the Eye: Poems for a First Baby and felt I could see not only the child, but all children dreaming and concerned, nurtured and growing.
— Maya Angelou, author of Gather Together in My Name
Never has a father celebrated the infancy of a first baby with such lyrical precision, and grave attention, with such delightful humor.
— May Sarton, author of Kinds of Love and In Time Like Air
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Our Song
How can music
Be so churchly serene
That it makes me kneel
On cold stone floors and weep?
The song I hear
Is my wife and child
Lying together, both asleep.
Each breath they share
Releases a sweet note
Scored by me,
Devotedly,
As I tiptoe from our bedroom,
To keep from waking them.
All afternoon,
My eyes hymn our melody.
