Eve

Simply she stands at the cathedral’sgreat ascent, close to the rose window,with the apple in the apple-pose,guiltless-guilty once and for allof the growing she gave birth tosince form the circle of eternitiesloving she went forth, top struggle throughher way throughout the earth like a young year.

Ah, gladly yet a little in that

Would she have lingered, heeding the

And understanding of the animals.

But since she found the man determined,

She went with him, aspiring after death,

And she had as yet hardly known God.