eve

My angelic friend, Liza Lorraine, provided me the inspiration with a photo she did entitled "Eve".
She explains the photographic metaphor as being a meeting of two major moments in the Holy Bible, the Creation and the Fall of Man, with the light bulb substituting for the apple to imply "let there be light" was a fulcrum of creation that is bitten into, or perhaps even consumed. The spark was struck and you can read the result. Thank you, again, and always, Liza.

eve

swallowing the light.
vouchsafing the coming night.
fire to devour.
I take it in to feed my power.

lambent to the scene.
regrets are for the lesser queen.
I take it all to seal;
my guarantee of what is real.

warm, and so I drain
the fire, desire and the pain
that is drawn to me.
that is spawn to be.

swallowing the fire
a curious thing, desire.
I take in your release
to find the bind that shall not cease.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.