Be Thou My Vision
Boulder River
First Indian on the Moon
Holding On
Inside Emotion
Love was all she wrote
Next Day
The Waking
The Wife of Noble Character
Woman

Woman

Woman,
unfinished being
not the remote angelic rose sung by poets of old
nor the sinister witch burned at Inquisition's stake
nor the lauded and desired prostitute
nor the blessed mother.
Neither the withering, taunted old maid
nor she who is obliged to be beautiful
Nor she who is obliged to be bad
nor she who lives because they let her
Not she who must always say yes.
Woman, a being who begins to know who she is
and starts to live.

Translated by Margaret Randall