Pale Hekate has come to the garden called by our pomegranate offering beneath the shadowed hedge. Her hands rake a trail of death, dying in a spiral bedded into the earth.
In her wake, the mint sprigs emerge, luscious and renewed. Green children offering grace at the feet of death.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
1 comment:
Well it's true; you can't kill mint.
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