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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire
Surely Her Name Is Eve
Each young expectant mother thinks she is
the first in all the earth
To feel the awesome stir of life foretell
The miracle of birth.
Wrapped in her private genesis,
She has a glow
That makes her seem almost translucent.
She must know
The ancient secret of the universe
How life began
When God breathed on a doll he made of clay
And made it man.
The swelling seed and warmly nested egg
Are all as one,
Sharing with each young Eve the wonder
New life begun.
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