and mother has it taken me so long

and mother has it taken me so long to give these sterile symbols life in tribute to your love’s fertility? Mother, life-giver, mother, Beatrice, Mary, Rain Queen; mother, has it taken me so long? and father has it taken me so long to sweat, as you sweated, to build a monument to your provision? Father, protector, father, Virgil, shepherd, lion; father, has it taken me so long?

 

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