Eve Is an Echo
Offers to tell
for the hundredth time
the story of the lazy apple.
Plays the game
of telling and retelling
the tale of the Great Bungle.
Amuses herself
by keeping
an enormous chronicle.
Insists on leaving
the temporary oasis
by walking backwards.
Eve Pounds Keys
Eve pounds keys
at the typewriter
until a wave of nausea
washes over her.
Young Cain looks
at the pounding
with fascination
a dozen times a day.
A large ivy-covered
water tower, terraced into
one side of the mountain,
is used for rural broadcasting
and amateur radio
announcements.
Harlot
Eve is up
to her neck
in curses.
She calls on desire
and gets no response.
Eve senses
her Goddess passing.
Could be the last
of the human race.
Author of Eve Would Know (2017), published by Kelsay Books, Joanne Leva is founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva's poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, Peace is a Haiku Song (The Foundry Books), 50 Over Fifty (PS Books), and Schuylkill Valley Journal, among others.