Log Cabin Chronicles
Eternal Servant: the constant widening of hips
ELISHA PORAT
Women never come to terms with the constant widening of their hips; in their wiliness they try to cheat the nature of woman: cutting on the bias, camouflaging, lengthening, in denial of the natural law of the flesh. But I am an eternal servant of your body, I am happy when it thickens and happy too when it narrows: a beloved place, a sad source, from whence I came, and to which, alas, I will never return.
Translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner
Elisha Porat writes on a kibbutz in Israel.
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