Before the Drought Quotes

“from "Here is My Body": "Invisible, on our lake, our dreamscape, the old blue heron lands. Beak of my hunger. Beak of her hunger. Beak of her mothering. Mother-me, I say. I’m her body of surrender, waiting. I’m her body of hunger, waiting. Her body of danger, waiting under the five million star-fall night. Mother, I cry, you promised kinder dreams. You promised sleep. Be kind, you said, before you surrendered. Before
you climbed the star-fall...”
― Margo Berdeshevsky, Before the Drought