"Woman from Durer to Matisse" fine art photo by Adel Gorgy, New York - "First Birth" poem by Stanley H. Barkan, NY

(copyright Adel Gorgy)
(copyright Adel Gorgy)

Link: http://adelgorgy.com/

 

Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadside 

 

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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 

 

Link: http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/ccc.html

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