Gan Eden/#10
Another Love Goddess

Mother wed son of God
Father bed daughter of Man
We are
Girlfriend
Mistress
Concubine
Wife

Tears flee
We heal every beast
fowl   creeping thing
rename each being
in Our image
We tongue in speech
lap salted skin
straddle loins
kiss fingertips
lips navel
nape ears

    Our name is
Daughter of Lot
Tamar
Dinah
Miriam
Deborah
Ruth
Jeanne d'Arc
Harriet Tubman
Emma Goldman
Virginia Woolf
Betty Frieden
Mother Theresa
Lucille  Clifton
Jane Doe

We are raped
circumcised girl
footbound female
drunken whim
We are raped
coathanger abortion
hillside abandoned
pillage of armies
We are raped
Still not by sword
but by love
We are
Woman

Blessed are you O God
sovereign of the universe
who has given us Our name

Ryfkah 8-17-01