Eve - Jane Shin

eve

by jane shin

eve is the first magician

the day she discovers that trees bear more than fruit she pulls on green leaves stitches them into sheets and slips her body in the sheath.

the disappearing act perfected long before man learned how to build boxes with trap doors.

when you bit into me and fed my pain pleasure pain pleasure pain when you licked that pussy clean and demanded my body as payment when you devoured the fruit and turned to ask for more catching my hand so you could suck the juice off my fingers i clung to your touch and laid myself bare back to bones back to rib back to dust back to creatures and sky and water and light now we are formless now i am empty.

she has yet to know shame still she hides she has yet to meet serpents still her eyes wander

god is watching but he does not see her there

tangled in forgiving branches blinking through thick foliage willing restless limbs into silence mistaking silence for peace.

you are a rib are a companion are a woman are the first to feel lonely when you are not alone