"I am wild and succulent, joyous and free.
I flow with
the desert rivers and bring forth the springs.
I am the divine presence in the hollow canyons.
My dance brings life into the dry empty spaces of sand and stone.
I am midwife to coyote and rattlesnake.
I flower the cacti in Springtime and
ripen the Summer corn.
I beckon Autumn storms into being and cause flash floods to rage,
tumbling boulders and uprooting trees.
In Winter I blanket the resting earth in snow.
At daybreak and again at dusk, the sun follows me over the horizon.
Every night I place the moon in the heavens
and scatter stars across the velvet sky."
I met and got to know this goddess during my
many travels in the deserts of the American Southwest.
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©2003 Melinda Schwakhofer