Visitation

By Stephen Pohl

 

Barely a woman,

sown with the one seed

and first fruit of the

tree of life, bearing

death's own destruction,

she strides Judah's hills

to one thought barren

now late in season

ripe with leaping life

crying out wild joy.

 

 

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