<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><h4 class="header-anchor-post" style="position: relative; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 1.16em; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Goddess’s Dream</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">The black new moon of my belly is set<br>in a crescent of shine, and from it<br>a boy, a girl will soon come forth,<br>more or less in my image, of course.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">They now are fish-like; may they always recall<br>their slick gill-slits. Come their time to crawl<br>may they be tutored by beetles and moles.<br>Their time to run, likewise by deer and a foal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">May my daughter grow strong as my son<br>never shoved from her place in the sun.<br>For I have dreamed of weeping women<br>and deadly warriors, and have seen</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">the universe split open, crack into stars:<br>into Venus, teardrop, blood-drop of Mars.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Phyllis Meshulam</font></p></div></body></html>