“Baby Books” and “Baby Names”: Poems

Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall 2022): 34

Two Poems

Rebecca Duke

Baby Books

When I first knew of you, I bought old books: The Mitten, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alexander and the Magic Mouse— So we may know each other In your mother’s arms, Faith, And a world of talking animals.

Baby Names

it seems beyond my right to give a name, yet here you are, cooing to a sound that echoes the weight and lightness of His image.