JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT
History
Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wai t for love,
must have leaned some sleepless nights
alone against the garden wall
and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild
and wished to trade-in all of Eden
to have but been a child.
In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace:
that she might have a story of herself to tell
in some other place.
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN
Cactus Bride: The Rain Birth of Onima
Six days out of jail,
Winfred Dania
visited Franz's class on Bonaire legends
in the Historic Museum.
He found himself
spellbound by the colorful maps and graphs
linking each great myth
to land si tes
it adorned. More a lesson
in geography, Franz taught his pupils to know the special rocks,
caves and pools that defined the unique landscape
of their home isle. They must never forget-the beauties of desert
locale came first, the legends
slowly unfolding therefrom.
