Saying No to Circumcision

 

When they come now

in dreams

those round and fleshy wondrous baby boys

we meet eagerly and with affection

new spirit and earth guide

a trusting miracle of welcome.

I am no longer handmaiden

of amputations, mutilations

too gross and grievous to be rational.

The nightmare agony of mute witness

has shifted--

now when the flayed, the mangled, the dismembered appear

my voice cries out the wounding,

mine are the hands of healing.

 

copyright1996 by Patricia Worth

 

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