Mother Dance March - '98

Small toes bruise my knees
Tangled together we sleep
Seed and husk.
Until star fish fists climb my hair
And monkey grasp pinches the back of my hand.
Love bites my fingers with two new teeth.

I am here for you to push against,
Sometimes shattering as you grow
Breaking my shell
Excavating dawn
To the tune of wonder hatching.

Nimidae

This means Moon Grove and refers to the sites sacred to the woodland Deities of Europe that were worshipped widely up until the Renaissance.

Uterine Grove

The groves which filled the primordial forests of Europe were more than just places of worship.They may be seen as metaphors for the womb from which all life springs.