CORN MOTHER

	

	
The Living Earth,
	Mineral Being,
	Breathes Her force upward
		and carries the miracle
			within the seeds
	Outward into the Cosmos.

And the planetary bodies
	dance circles within circles
	while the women's hands
	pat out today's bread.

The water flows
	around the edges of
		this place,
		Here.
And She listens, savoring,
	as the serpent
		sings to Her of
			danger,
			and the edge of being.

				-Hue Walker, 1991