Gregory

His talent for baffling
begins coiled in utero.
Gregory waits with guile.
His predatory, masculine,
kicks womb walls
with zeal.

Confinement conclusion-
Gregory's scream,
an audacious arrival
(we're expecting Isabelle)
proving prophecy is half chance.
We throw out pink

and eighteen years later
finally a docile man
strokes ivory
to drown out the drunk
familial noise, his world
still has amniotic fluidity.