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magma mater-stephanie pope

	a mother had two children who were always fighting, so she sent one to the north and one to the south until they could get along. She sat in the desert with her basket and cried while she waited. They never returned. The mother's tears filled the valley and she turned to stone -Paiute Tale
Come forth, Galateia, and forget as you come—as I do,sitting here—to go home again. -Eleventh Idyll, Theocritus

Creek-bed rider fish-eyed, seed sunk, peacock-tailed deep stone blossom turned cherry bark black laden heavy heaving in sleepless rest
cleft-dweller whichway, richred, windwounded uplifted rift springwafting loaded for erosion— your will encroaches, your rape frees it leaves yet, leaves barren, feels, but feels no thing, no place I am left, loose, lost and bend to you still will you come to me and forget to leave, as you come O Deeply Blossomed Stone murmur, as I do here uprooted and flowing the way you are pouring the way you are bearing pouring and bearing



as I do here

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