dKd's poems
REVERSING ADAM

I'll walk in moonlight
Unnaming things,
Take the burden of that ownership
From the slender necks of --
And let them stand straight
Reaching for --

All I've unnamed will unblame Eve
For knowledge,
For good and evil,
For eviction.
For birthing us into a world
Of Bombs and Babies
Of Earthquakes and Breezes...
For expelling us from the confines of Eden
From the safety of Eden
How we cried to lose Eden
The naming lost our Eden.

In unnaming will come unownership
The unnamed, unburdened by words,
Will sing universal
Will pray without ceasing
Will know the eternal ...
Answering, I am that I am that I am,
And in this act
To spin the world,
Reversing Adam.

by dKd
April 1,1999

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