Mary
You should have seen her
sitting there eating plums with the redheaded prostitute
whom she met whilst visiting her son as he was dying
I remember her as a girl
falling pregnant the year after her bat mitzvah
Can you get pregnant through masturbation? she asked
Full to the brim with holy spirit
Wearing a blue summer dress
in the middle of spring
blood matting it to her body
Smiling the all knowing smile of a virgin
as if she knew something that we all forget
lost in the ways we come to define ourselves
Leaving the village with her teenage husband
led by confused/ confusing stars
scared sacred
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