Type: Poem

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As I bend / hanging laundry on the drying rack / my back twinges    but just a little
a construction scene in which a person wearing baggy jeans covered in paint and dust is hunched over a bowl, which is next to a bucket, a barrel, and a sack.
You glimmer in my rearview mirror Quick look, there’s no one in the / back of the car. Yet, / you
from inside the car we see a person's hands on a steering wheel and a rearview window, out of the window is pictured a road surrounded by grass and trees on a cloudy day
To love an idea can be quite quite / satisfying but only the body, beloved, / is holy, holy, holy.
a black and white photo of a dancer with short hair wearing a long skirt with bent knees, face angled upward, and arm extending to the side
“Every step along the way is it’s own journey…”
tall trees along either side of a wooden bridge
“We do not want to choose whose child will live and whose will die.”
two children playing in a pond
Those they call vile things / are an homage / to Her beauty
an assortment of Astarte figurines representing the goddess Asherah
My husband stokes the fire / with wood the children gathered / I knead the dough – / an offering for the Source of all
green olives on an olive tree
The toy Solar System / gets the revolutions right / but a true scale model / would take up half of town / .
a horizon with the slight orange glow of a sun setting underneath a dark purple night sky dotted with stars and a cloud formation
A Poem for the Removal of Uterine Fibroids
swirling colors representing the universe
“I have no people and my God makes me mourn…”
a fiery sunset of orange and yellow

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