A Modern Psalm

a tightened version of the expansive poem, shaped into a modern psalm — musical, prayer-like, and incantatory, while keeping the body–soul interplay: A Modern Psalm I know a woman. Her body is fire, her fire a seed, her seed a light. I know a woman. Her soul is water, her water a river, her river a song. Her body is earth, root giving bread. Her soul is wind, breath giving dawn. In her, fire drinks of water, earth listens to wind. In her, the world is gathered, and creation begins again.