The Second Sex

She is at times
Crouching,
At times
Erect.
Sometimes dressed,
Often naked,
Arms pressed
Beneath her swelling breasts.
Queen of heaven,
Empress of hell,
Whence she crawls forth,
Or flies,
A serpent.
A dove.
She is manifest
In the mountains,
The springs of water,
Creating life.
Killing.
Retrieving the dead.
Capricious,
Cruel as nature.
She reigns
Over all of Aegean,
Syria, Antolia.
She is Ishtar,
Astarte,
Gaea, Rhea, Cybele.
We are
Isis.

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