Monday, March 19, 2012

Why There are Doors: In Praise of Nudity

Doors hang more clearly than shame.

They were our first loin clothes

and our first captors.

When did nature become

this external?

I rely on the night,

Which leads me outward

into the forest.

Felling the moss lined ground

under our feet

I and other women

dance naked around logs.

God is not unhappy.

He sends down to us

the lighting of fireflies

so we can see more clearly.

It was not He who said

our bodies are our secrets.

Who would want his own creations

to be ashamed?

It was man who handed woman

the first apricot leaf.

He hid his woman from God,

for he thought

whomever could create

such blisses as full bloomed breasts

and round ready hips,

must be lustful.

Man’s fault was in

lust’s creation.

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