“The Midwife’s Adonis Garden”

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Click here to read “The Midwife’s Adonis Garden” by Jane Beal.

Jane Beal is the author of Rising (Wipf & Stock 2015), Epiphany: Birth Poems (Lulu Press 2011), and Sanctuary (Finishing Line Press 2008). Her work has been published in Integrité, Ruminate, and Midwifery Today. She received a PhD in English from the University of California at Davis, and she works as a writer, educator, and midwife in the San Francisco Bay Area. She blogs at The Poetry Place and The Bird-Watcher’s Diary and maintains a website at sanctuarypoet.net.