[stylist] Poem - "Eve"

[Jackie Williams via stylist]

Bill,
I absolutely love this poem. A zinger ending.
I have two oil paintings in my house, one of Adam and Eve in the garden of
Eden,  where, nude, she is reaching up for a fruit from the Mazutna tree,
and one, with her red hair, looking over her shoulder, at you, with an apple
with  a bite out of it, resting on her hip.  My mother was the artist. Also,
I treasure her book of poetry called, "Daughter of Eve," which I managed to
get in publishable form with my then Macintosh. 
Irreverent-Yes! And all this time, people thought it was an apple tree.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
Houts via stylist
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:03 PM
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Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Eve"


Hello Blinks,

Here's a poem I wrote a couple of days ago.  It's in a less literary 
form that I'm working on now, less concerned with certain literary 
effects.  Also, it seems a subject appropriate to late Sunday afternoon.


--Bill


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Eve

Let's say I believe the Book

the same way I believe in apples and curiosity.

Eve, then, our mother first

was nobody's dupe; and the snake was no devil

but a wise townsman in that primest of towns.

"See all of the colors?" he said,

that giddy green mayor.

Our Eve saw all the pigments

of which the serpent was one

and wanted to paint.





copyright William L. Houts 2014


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