Shaping the Fire « Barbara Lefcowitz Poetry

I think of the Burning Bush and the Pillar of Fire, both of which were self-contained, but mostly I think how women were the primary shapers of fire: women who create pots, by hand or at a wheel, then use some form of enclosed fire to harden them; women who tend the hearth, all the many daughters of Hestia; women who receive a man’s fire, join it with her own fire to make a child inside the secret enclosure of her body . In New Guinea, according to James Frazer, …
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