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© Lisa Sarasohn 2000
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Eostre: Celebrating Easter

 

Eostre slides into April,
spacstringing springtime along,
puts all Her eggs,
spacevery promise she's ever made us,
into the basket of Her belly,
hires Her friend the Hare—
spacShe's hung his nightsky portrait
spacin the moon's full circle frame—
to help Her hatch the possibilities.

Eostre's Hare broadcasts Her blessings,
spacflings them from Her basket into ours.
Easter's Bunny is bearing eggs
spacestrogenic, estro-generous
arrives in kind with the season's timing,
arrives in tune with Her estrous cycling.

Now in April, as in days ancestral,
we hip hope through the feast of Eostre.

brittle becomes supple
barren becomes bountiful
harsh becomes soothing
parched becomes juicy
frozen becomes flowing
drab becomes flamboyant
rigid becomes yielding
strained becomes flagrant
dormant becomes alive.

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