Marjorie Allen Seiffert

I am here, my beloved

STURDY is earth,

Dull and mighty,

Unresentful.

Of her own fertility

Covering her scars

With healing green.

You cannot anger earth,

You cannot cause her pain,

Nor make her remember

Your hungry, querulous love.

At last your unwilling body

She tranquilly accepts,

And turns it to her uses.