Lisette Boer

Eve’s Incantation

PUBLISHED IN FOLIO 2023: VOL. 38.

The next time. You see me,
I’ll dress in red. Call me
Lady Lucifer,
the devil’s
next lover,
collecting a
bouquet from her
audience in a
twisted procession
down the graveyard.

Don’t forget
that God didn’t
learn the first time
he found us at the edge
of the Red Sea
that he couldn’t tame a woman.

Don’t forget
that a rib can regrow herself
with the beating heart of a wild woman.
I’ll pluck out all 24, sharpen them, and
use them
to pierce every man’s wet dream,
whisper in their ear that
I love them, and leave the next morning.
Miss mother of lust
And forbidden fruit,
Adam first wife
mounted on top,
holds me equal in
her arms and
lets me walk next to her
side-by-side.