Pictures of Eve

By Richard Mather

I

Adam

cultivated Eve

by swelling her belly

with something so potent

that it could only have come

from the stone of a forbidden fruit.

II

Eve was striding the earth

when Adam emerged

from a black gap.

Six days passed and earth

was reduced to a pile

of newsprint.

And Eve tore her clothes

and made for herself a

garment of lamentations.

But Adam, sated and pitiless,

scoffed her beneath the

absent apple tree.