Eve was a lesbian
who loved Mary with a passion
that cracked the world.
God was so jealous
he ground them down
to oblivion.
The tears of Mother Earth
carved furrows
in her cheeks.
Now their bodies
bleed a red river
that feeds us all.
Dorothy DiRienzi has published in Poetry Northwest, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Passager, MO: Writings from the River, SLAB, Stone’s Throw, Slant, Front Range, Naugatuck River Review, Sow’s Ear, Southwest American Poetry, Grey Matter, and Write On Downtown. Fellow at Norcroft, 2002; awards at the Tucson Poetry Festival, 2005, 2010; semifinalist for Black Lawrence Press poetry prize, 2008. With an M.F.A. from ASU, Dot retired from editor/publisher of the University Policy Manuals Group at ASU. She previously worked for 38 years as an editor and indexer of medical textbook titles at Lea & Febiger Publishers and J. B. Lippincott in Philadelphia, PA.
Photograph by Kat Hofland.
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