Debra Weinstein
The Story of Life

*

These are the enzymes of the gods.

And this is their piss cup.

This is the dropper stuffed with cotton

that transports me back to matter.

I have made love and know

the principles of desire.

I have been love's chemist

alone in my single stall

measuring the elements

that foretell ovulation.

 

**

I saw your face

in the electron microscope.

It was the frantic face

of the germ cell seeking life.

 

I saw my os

in the physician's glass.

It was eternity opening 

its door a bit wider.

 

***

I wanted you in the biblical sense

as Deborah wanted Deborah.

I pitched my tent by the ocean,

I sang to the armies.

We brewed coffee and

sat all day in the water.

Then fishes circled me

in zebra stripes.

 

You held my hand.

Later we loved,

shades down.

 
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Debra Weinstein
About the Author
 Debra Weinstein is the recipient of a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing.  Her poems have appeared in The National ReviewTikkun, and The Portable Lower East Side