My wide hips raised two warriors from sweat & clay, blood sonata & birth cry. I said anger & avarice, & they called themselves Cain & Abel. I said gold, & they opened up the earth. I said love, & they ventured east & west, south & north. I said evil, &...

“From the great above she opened her ears to the great below, The goddess, from the great above she opened her ears to the great below” Inanna: from the great above she set her mind to the great below Jana Lee Pullman Madison: Western Slope Press, 1989 PS3566 U55 I63 1989 Printed on...

“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...