For International Woman's Day

 

Can you pour the ocean into a thimble?

Can you honor Woman in one day?

The whole lifespan of Allah, Shiva, Yahweh

is one breath in her eternity.

Earth spins on her spine of stillness.

Planets circle their suns because

her darkness is awake.

Stars drip from the rim of her bowl.

We drank from her silence

before we were conceived,

trillions of galaxies suspended

like dust in the golden beam of her gaze.

When She closes her eyes,

there is fullness.

When she opens them, we dance.