Susan Hawthorne #250 to make live

a simple enough verb
to make live
you find it in Sumerian
the appellation Ninti
lady of the rib
also means
to make live

so Eve
tell me about your origins
she gestures at her rib
but that's not all is it?
I persist
what else does it mean?
to make live she whispers

think of this
in the Sumerian tradition
there is Ninhursag
who has many great powers
when Enki
Epic of Gilgamesh fame
plucks eight plants
from her garden she curses him

but upon request she relents
sit by my vulva she says
and creates the eight healing plants
to fix him up
including that dodgy rib
to make live
she says as she walks away

poor Eve tricked into submission
she too plucks fruit from a tree
she could have gone with the snake
usurped her ancient powers
healing creating doing her own thing
Adam claimed it all for himself