"Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen
Makes babies to breathe.."
She is happy and pregnant and is excited to be having babies.
"With their hearts hanging open all over the sheets
As soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer.."
Magnum goes straight from the hope and happiness of Pree to telling us that she miscarries.
"And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing
They'll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating
Till wonderfully wet she will get
Until she's soaked inside her clothes.."
Childbirth taking place. The pain of it but not a natural pain. She is losing the babies. The imagery used here is bizarre and unpleasant (bee's stinging) and does not at all lead us to think positive things.
"And there is no sorry to be sorry for
For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft
It made her swallow all her sweat
With every bit of breath she coughs...."
She feels the guilt often felt by women who miscarry for getting pregnant int he first place.
"And when the day it came to pour all her babies
All across the bathroom floor
She will be swimming in them all forever more....."
Again the imagery is not pleasant and her babies are being spilled across the bathroom floor instead of the normal hospital room. She is going to be upset and hurt by this for a long time. She will be swimming in them ever more shows this in a very beautiful and poetic way.
I take the miscarriage view.
"Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen Makes babies to breathe.."
She is happy and pregnant and is excited to be having babies.
"With their hearts hanging open all over the sheets As soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer.."
Magnum goes straight from the hope and happiness of Pree to telling us that she miscarries.
"And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing They'll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating Till wonderfully wet she will get Until she's soaked inside her clothes.."
Childbirth taking place. The pain of it but not a natural pain. She is losing the babies. The imagery used here is bizarre and unpleasant (bee's stinging) and does not at all lead us to think positive things.
"And there is no sorry to be sorry for For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft It made her swallow all her sweat With every bit of breath she coughs...."
She feels the guilt often felt by women who miscarry for getting pregnant int he first place.
"And when the day it came to pour all her babies All across the bathroom floor She will be swimming in them all forever more....."
Again the imagery is not pleasant and her babies are being spilled across the bathroom floor instead of the normal hospital room. She is going to be upset and hurt by this for a long time. She will be swimming in them ever more shows this in a very beautiful and poetic way.
I see no references about abortion here.