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kicked myself out of paradise
left a hole in the morning
no note no goodbye
the man I lived with
was patient and hairy
he cared for the animals
worked late at night
planting vegetables
under the moon
sometimes he'd hold me
our long hair tangled
he kept me from rolling
off the planet
it was
always safe there
but safety
wasn't enough. I kept nagging
pointing out flaws
in his logic
he carried a god
around in his pocket
consulted it like
a watch or an almanac
it always proved
I was wrong
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Between Revolutions, Interesting Times
and On the Road to Damascus, Maryland
are some of the tides.
The idea for the Lilith anthology
came out of a meeting of the Jewish
Women's Resource Center of the
National Council of Jewish Women in
1992.
"I like the diversity of voices [in the
anthology]," Dame says. "I think it's
impressive that so many women find
Lilith important and approach her in
such different ways. She's been ignored
and considered embarrassing. She's been
seen as bad — a seductress who appears
to men in their dreams and a killer of
babies."
Dame says the Lilith myth flourished
when Jews were in exile. Lilith was used
as a negative example that would
encourage women to become her oppo-
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were sort of fun
they called me a witch
I kept dropping
in and out
of people's sexual fantasies
now
I work in New Jersey
take art lessons
live with a cabdriver
he says: baby
what I like about you
is your sense of humor
sometimes
I cry in the bathroom
remembering Eden
and the man and the god
I couldn't live with
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site. Anything less than total commit-
ment to family would not have been
acceptable to men at that time.
"Now, we're re-evaluating indepen-
dence and sexuality, and women are say-
ing her ways were not necessarily bad,"
Dame says. "Women are identifying
with her leaving Adam. Maybe the need
for equality in marriage should be
looked at again as Lilith represents possi-
bilities of behavior."
Dame — a contributor to the
Which Lilith chapters called "Lilith and
Men," "Lilith and the Family" and
"Lilith in Exile" — has begun a new
book of midrash poems. They are most-
ly about biblical women and a few bibli-
cal men. She is inventing Noah's daugh-
ter as a character and trying to imagine
what Moses' son would have been like.
"I hope that women will be empow-
ered by Which Lilith," says Dame. El
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