In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Monday, January 02, 2006

What Your Body Loves 

I love Mary Oliver's words. If I ever met her, I think I'd kiss her full on the lips if she was amenable. Or get on my knees. Or dance. Or kiss her words.

Tonight I read "Wild Geese" again. She is able to put into poetry what I feel, what I cannot say, sometimes, in 300 pages.

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting,
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves." —Mary Oliver

"...yes I said yes I will Yes."

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