“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.” ChildrenStillsDreamEarthLyingNightWaitingSidesSleepWalksSunWiseTreeFeetSpringDancingShiningFleshFatsHeatPregnancyJewelsVesselCornPaganStalkingWheatDolphinsBendingVasesReaperMaresColts Author:Meridel Le Sueur
“It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.” DreamYoungSufferingSecurityBirthEatingLaborSlaveEndlessBreadRejectsBitternessSparesHopelessness Book:Ripening: Selected Work Source: Ripening: Selected Work
