Lilith,
First Wife, Last Wife- by Gary
Blankenship
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- girl baby -
- swollen belly
- empty chest
- days in the same
soiled rag
- cries -
- she touches a lip
- silence
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- teen -
- blood runs down
her leg
- mouth smashed
- nose broken
- moans -
- she touches a leg
- their laughter
fades
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- Along the horizon,
she moves
- to protect
her’s, broken, sick,
- maltreated from the
Sons of Noah.
- While others strive
to harvest souls,
- from pole to pole,
she travels
- to release the lost,
offered
- innocent before the
Throne of God.
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- matriarch -
- tubed
- strapped
- forgotten
- labored breath -
- she touches gray
hair
- flatline
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- touch
- latex tears
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- touch
- eggs dry
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- touch
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- Since the holy
annulment as God’s wife,
- she has wandered His
earth
- to protect the
Daughters of Lot.
- Without
acknowledgement,
- as God creates cruel
signs of his love,
- she removes as many
as she can -
- not enough, never
enough, to allow her
- to stand innocent
before the Throne.
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- made demon
- by the mind of men
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- made goddess
- by the power of
women
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- the touch
- to release pain
- to ensure this one
is born
- this one not
- for her daughters
- their mothers
-
- from the
headwaters of the Pison
- to tidal flats of
the Mississippi
-
- she kept the
covenant
- though he did not
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- And the son of
Cain’s son’s son was Jubal;
- and Jubal’s sons
made the music and song,
- and the music
glorifies and nourishes God,
- though the wife and
mother of all the bards
- is forbidden to join
her charges before the Throne
- .
- one touch saved
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