FIRST BIRTH

Covered with leaves
she rises out of the earth—
she first,
not Adam.
How much more likely
(more provable),
he from her pit
than she from his rib.
It was a man
who wrote the myth.

—Stanley H. Barkan

 

Copyright © Adel Gorgy 2013 Photograph Woman ... from Durer to Matisse
Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides # 70