Challenging Poetry

For this poem, I drew upon one of the indigenous beliefs from Australia, that the spirit of a child enters the mother at the point in which she feels the baby first move (around the fifth month), and so the spirit of the child is from that point in the land. That caught my imagination, because I have always felt a kinship to the land of my birth (I was born in Arizona, in the Sonoran desert) even though I haven't lived there since I was about four months old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime