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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