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Mother Love is a collection of
loose sonnets I'll call them,

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which are based on the
Persephone and Demeter myth.

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And so I will read to you
one, but maybe two, depending.

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I always make a list
and then I tear it up

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when I get up here so.

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But I will start
with this one, as you

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know that Demeter,
or Persephone,

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was the daughter who
strayed from the group

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and was snapped up by the
god of the underworld.

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"The Narcissus Flower."

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"I remember my foot in its
frivolous slipper, a frightened

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bird.

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Not the Earth unzipped, but the
way I could see my own fingers

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and hear myself scream as
the blossom incinerated.

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And though nothing could
chasten the plunge,

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this man adamant
as a knife, easing

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into the humblest crevice.

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I found myself at the center of
a calm, so pure, it was hate.

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The mystery is you can eat
fear before fear eats you,

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you can live beyond
dying and become a queen

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whom nothing surprises."