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.
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