Mythology

Step down into the watersaid a voice so I did hungrymy robes darkening as I gathered

              [Moses drawn from water like              water from well or womb]

I spent myself for want of watermouthfuls of wind-crammed sandbellyful of refusals burning bush that I was

              [water slipping away like              lungfish crocodile current]

for whom the waters partedfor whom I swept aside my linen tidesa savior wholly misguided so why

              [first of the motherless              twice mothered by war]

must I who drowned once alreadyin the water of the womb ponderwhy the water does not part for me