The terrible beginning of love
For a woman, who, unthinking
Assumes, like water, the
Shape 0 f the vessel and dreams
Those alien contours are hers
Abdicating her' right
To changes form, to seep into
Earth, mingle with the air
Rain' down as rain or
Rise and fall, the exquisite glissade of
a wave
The terrible end of love
For a woman, forced to stillness
Choked in tangled weeds
Stagnant, fetid
Waiting for the vessel to crack
To pour out in a gush
To be free ••••••••