The Goddess Vain Poem by Mark Heathcote

The Goddess Vain



The wind will place its claw
In the palm of her hand
To soothe or freeze the dawn
That she would alone command.

Like the adder in the long grass
She would decipher what hearts can pass
And what sunsets unfold on their cast.

07.01.1998

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