THE DAINTY MONSTERS
Michael
Ondaatje
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Lilith
Shaped from breeze
and torn off trees and roots and waving corn
and spiraling wings
she was the first experiment
Out of strange pine
He stretched out her green
corruptions and obscenities
all new
for the weaving thawing world
And she
being more God than he
fashioned the sperm of her body
for action
No coy sea shells for her
she rioted
and tormented the passive Eden
pivoting on the horn
of corrupted unicorns
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