couch potato
televangelist dollars
god's green planters

sunshine crop
amish farmer
plows labor-rich soil

new age lesbian
broadcast spreader,
a sage's earthway outlet
keeping the justice seed right
where she wants it, on the AD page
spreading Reckoning in a five-foot wide
swath,

mneumonic
orris root - ginseng

pleiades, the
colony's shimmering,
alchemical orphrey, border
of gold embroidery on the women
priests vestments a clue, torn and
tattered, the tunic wars impeding religious
choice and sexual orientation as preserved
evidence encoded in DNA, those eternal fibers
have not left us;

and tears
have always
meant so much
more to us than
sadness, memory
cries, and when the
room is darkened, when
we're in our beds at night,
we cry, trying to remember why.

Copyright 3.12.2010 Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist