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Bowl-like hipbones and hands
free --
to pick up a stone
or hold a newborn. Upright unlike other apes.
In the heart of New York City
that famous fossil Lucy,
excavated from Africa’s sun-baked valleys
stared
from the hall
of human origins,
straight at me
and my unborn daughter.