Gloria Steele-Hatten

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The Word is conceptualized as a Feminine Principle, being a container that is the Womb. The Word, or the Utterance, or even what the Hindu refer to as the "OM" is Creation itself, a Vessel in which to contain or conceive reality. The poems also reference the feminine knowledge of Odu Ifa: everything that ever has or ever will exist or come into being-and even everything that is not, or has not been, all potential for all creation, good and bad, and the transcendence of all duality and plurality.