Adem and Eve

A stripped-down creation poem in which intimacy is imagined as origin, kinship, and mutual making.

Its directness gives it the feel of a private creed or vow.

The misspelling of 'Adam' as 'Adem' is the poem's first act of revision — the creation story is retold with a new name, suggesting that origin must be reimagined before it can be inhabited. Love arrives not as choice but as the only response to a world so real that everything in it is unusual.

The poem's brevity gives it the quality of inscription — something carved rather than written, too essential for ornament. 'There was no choice but for me to love you' collapses theology into declaration.