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Goddesses and Gods.wps - Welcome to Our Temple

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Persephone<br />

Early spring--<br />

Leo finally begins its ascent in<strong>to</strong> the night.<br />

If that lion could roar, would I be able <strong>to</strong> see its breath, a cloud of tiny<br />

stars in the indescribable sky?<br />

Far below, mottled purple fingers of skunk cabbage stab at me through frozen mud.<br />

Freeze<br />

Thaw<br />

Freeze<br />

Thaw<br />

My sap begins <strong>to</strong> run sluggish <strong>and</strong> slow, restless <strong>and</strong> silently roaring while the air<br />

unfolds.<br />

This is not like birth,<br />

not a sharp simple pain.<br />

This is an excavation,<br />

tedious <strong>and</strong> frustrating,<br />

a dipping in <strong>and</strong> out like summer pond feet dangling from the end of a dock.<br />

Persephone, how do you manage <strong>to</strong> climb all those stairs?

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