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II. FIRST BIRTH
by Stanley Barkin

Covered with leaves,
she rises out of the earth—
she first,
not Adam.
How much more likely
(more provable),
he from her pit
than she from his rib.
It was a man
Who wrote the myth.

Naming the Birds by Stanley Barkin (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2002).

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