Best Braiding Poems

In "Braiding Sweetgrass"
Robin Wall Kimmerer
favorably contrasts Skywoman's creation story 
with Eve's less abundant vocation.

In our shared Right hemisphere,
Skywoman "created a garden
for the wellbeing of all."
While in and out of the more extractive Left hemisphere,
Eve was banished from her forest garden
"and the gates clanged shut behind...

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The time will not heal. The 
aging looks. Erotica. Each 
scream ends in a dry river. 
Who had the right to deliver 
the needle and a silk thread ?

Sometimes I will read you for 
the signs of remorse. There 
was this rigid wrinkle which 
will...

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