SURROGATE
Kim Kardashian boasted to her millions of followers on social media that she was the first person to have “skin on skin” contact with her baby delivered by surrogacy.
And lastly we should like to thank our Gestational Carrier.
A pitiless term –
impersonal
reductive
euphemistic.
Inside but not of me –
contained, sustained,
my womb your shelter, my blood your food,
as I faithfully follow
the diet prescribed, take the pills I must swallow –
a simulacrum of motherhood.
For I shall never touch your skin,
nor you taste my milk.
