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I withdrew my foot as if it had been a complaint,
and we took off again.
Perhaps the future was where we needed to be
not the past, with its howling stones,
with it fierce seers, with its knowledge.
—Jane Yolen
Second Coming
God is an alien
of the female kind:
birthing sons,
delivering them from evil.
We should know her
by her signs:
the cross of arms,
the open legs.
She:
maid, mother, crone.
Is three.
God is an alien
of the female kind:
forgiving but only
at a cost.
Nothing is lost
that she cannot find.
Nothing is given
that she does not first get.
She:
egg, larva, moth.
Is three.
God is an alien
of the female kind:
do not seek to know her,
to know about her.
She initiates contact,
breaks it off,
then wonders why
you do not call again.
She:
wife, lover, whore.
Is three.
