Violence

Mother would look at cliff sides 

And say, “Violent upheavals

Of the earth.”

How primeval.   

Violence is key to creation

As well as destruction. 

Lava, fire, cataclysmic 

Birth pains forming

Each soaring mountain range. 

Glaciers grinding - oceans 

Whipped to savage glee - 

Rearrangement in cacophony. 

Labor, amniotic fluid - 

Bone, sinew, a beating heart

A push, a cry - then life, anew. 

“I’m afraid I rather crave violence.” Jo March.