Spewed out of God's Sixth Day WIDE open post utero mouth, these zygotes, twin embryos, now grown, one buried inside the other, tumblefall into Eden.
History's first birth defect.
That story about the rib? History's first cover-up.
Nixon, listen up. God did it, too!
No woman to ride side saddle for long, Eve sharpens overgrown nails, aliens her way free through Adam's wimpy chest. She flirts with the serpent, finishes off the apple, tosses Adam the worm and the core.
Original sin. What fun, she trills.
With a shake of her fuck-me frizzled hair and one hand lifting an, as yet uncaressed breast, she takes up with a horny caveman. Their two dozen mix-breeded children scope uncountable later debates about Origins, birth control, and the true author of the Kama Sutra.
About the Author
The poetry of Pris Campbell has appeared in such journals as Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Oranges & Sardines, Wild Goose Review, The Dead Mule, The Cliffs: Soundings, and numerous others. She has been featured poet in Empowerment4Women, In the Fray, and From East to West. She has published two poetry books, Abrasions (Rank Stranger Press) and Sea Trails, a full length book of poems, log notes, charts, and photos based on her sailing trip in 1977 on a 22-foot sailboat down the East coast (Lummox Press, released fall of 2009), as well as two chapbooks, Interchangeable Goddesses (with Tammy Trendle, published by Rose of Sharon Press) and Hesitant Commitments, which is part of Lummox Press's Little Red Book Series. Three nominations for a Pushcart Prize (2008 and 2009) have come her way. After living all over the country, including Hawaii, the Greater West Palm Beach, FL is now her home.
My main focus in art is color, design and composition. I have a true passion for color as the art subject itself - how colors fit together, how they communicate with each other within the design, how certain colors combined with one another evoke a certain feeling - this is paramount in my work. I am a social worker, artist and poet living in Austin, TX. Read More...