Bowing willow treesI like the first two lines, they seem very descriptive, and make me want to read more and the last line is such a shocker. I love it, the way you introduce the fact that the baby might be dead.
fingers snaring curls of wind
to bind baby in his box-
Mama's on the tree bough What? Tree Bough...
with a laugh like crow squawksThis bit also seems awkward
and a slip-shod ring of cellophane
knotted in her fingers.