<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Goddess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goddess, I come to you <br>my neck wreathed with rosebuds,<br>my head filled with visions of infants,<br>my palms open to your silver nails,<br>my eyes open to your rays of illumination,<br>my vagina & my womb gaping<br>to be filled by your radiance. . .<br>O goddess, I would be a worthy vessel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Impermanence- all is impermanence.<br>The cock rises to fall again;<br>the woman fills only to empty<br>in a convulsion that shakes the world;<br>the poet grows to become a voice<br>only to lose that voice when death takes her.<br>A stroke cancels her upon the page-<br>& yet I open her book & a chill wind blows from eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goddess, I come to you<br>wreathed in tears, in losses, in whistling winds.<br>I wrap the witch's herbs around my neck<br>to ward off the impermanence that is our common fate.<br>The herbs dry & crumble,<br>as my face grows the map of my anxieties,<br>& my daughter leaps up like a vine<br>twining around the trellis of impermanence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O goddess, teach me to praise loss,<br>death & the passing of all things- for from this flux<br>I know your blessings flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389977" data-title="To the Goddess de Erica Jong" data-description="Goddess, I come to you my neck wreathed with rosebuds, my head filled with visions of infants, my palms open to your silver nails, my eyes open to your rays of illumination, my vagina & my womb gaping to be filled by your radiance. . . O goddess,..."></div> </div> </div>

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