Devotee // In the Style of Anandamayi Ma
Margaret Durow, Yellow Shadow (2020)
On Gods & Monsters
Devotee // in the style of Anandamayi Ma
To be the Woman
The Woman
Who Sings in your Kitchen
The Woman Who
Cleans your Plate
Grateful
To have Brought You
Fullness
The Woman
Who Washes the Pots
And the Clothes
Wet Hands
Fed, herself, by the Smallest Things
Sable Hair Shining
Who Smiles at You
Openly
Without Reservation
Unrelenting Softness
Like Sunshine
For your Tea-stained
Moonstone Heart
Let Me
Hold the Children to my Breast
A Gentle Rocking
Left and Right
The best
Kind of Memoir
The Love of Us
Fills every corner of this House
To Bursting
The Overflow
Nourishing the Hearts
Of our Ancestors
Those who Came before Us
And the Chosen Children
Who Come after Us
All Yellow
All Warmed
(By the Light)
By the Reality of Us
Please, Fill the Table
From the Hunt
With your Offering
And I’ll Set It
Candles
And those Blue
Earthen plates
The ones you Like
Wine, and Raucous Laughter
Eyes that Do Not Look Away
Someone who Listens and Loves
(The God in You)
Like a Sacred Mandate
(She Who Steps Lightly)
Like the Rabbit through the Field
Filled with Inner Music
Happy to Be Useful
To Be Part of the Whole
To Be An Essential
Part of The Fold
Understanding
Her Place
In This Ecosystem
(Of Being)
Of All Breath
Of All Life
Touch my Delicate Shoulder
The Tenor
Of your Deep Voice
Keeps me Safe
Hold my Small Waist, from behind
I Settle
Into the Stillness
Of Us
Of Being Held
Those Warm, Large Hands, my Refuge
(My Temple)
(My Peace)
Living, Loving, and Making
Simply Blessed
Holding the Beloved
Utterly Complete
I Know What I Am
Because I have Looked
Again and Again
I Am
The Ever-Changing Constant
Devotee
That is Woman
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