Bits of Yarn, Calico and Velvet Scraps                                                            Page 19

LIFE

Ambiguity is inevitable. There is

light:

in rising feminist awareness

                in my body

                                            In the long experience of

                                            love

in listening to the voiceless

                                                            tasting

        dwelling in the dark                         freedom

rambling                                                erring

            straying

wandering                                    in emptiness and

                                                  openness

            roaming

positioning myself in a field of

narrative                                      on a path or mazing

                                                  grace

waiting on the Wholly Other

who comes towards me

and whom I do not own or know

When 1 first saw a woman after childbirth

the room was full of your glance who had

just gone away.

Judith Wright. 'Ishtar'