on bearing fruits of the spirit
Mar. 31st, 2009 03:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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elisem.
They are always she:
untold foreseeings, like physical babes, usurp the womb.
They come draped in the same potentiality
as any other gestation, each secretly scheming
to be, if not an only child, then a last one.
She nurses them out of her self,
rocks herself back and forth around them,
speaks them to soothe them, and is herself quieted--and not alone.
Every birthing ends in giving the child away.
elisem.They are always she:
untold foreseeings, like physical babes, usurp the womb.
They come draped in the same potentiality
as any other gestation, each secretly scheming
to be, if not an only child, then a last one.
She nurses them out of her self,
rocks herself back and forth around them,
speaks them to soothe them, and is herself quieted--and not alone.
Every birthing ends in giving the child away.
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Date: 2009-03-31 07:29 am (UTC)And _WOW_ this thing is making rounds!
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Date: 2009-03-31 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-01 02:22 am (UTC)Really good.
Fractal is also really good, and reminds me of Wm. Blake.