did Eve begin to weave
after she left the garden?
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Evening fell, walking two, their eyes
are dry and memories knew they'd come away
from beasts fresh slain, to fashion for their feet
terrain: clothes to warm their bodies now
exposed to elements both had known, yet not
so vast as this expanse; sown their bodies'
food, two wove from plants an eave to cover,
shelter heads their muffled tears, weave
new home a memory, prayers, and harvest theirs.
Years began to weave from kill{s} another
cloth-grown earth; a garment light as light
beams two, through garments three, then four; their Abel
grew within her womb, blood-born children,
Cain and Abel: blood remained their covering,
both their bodies small, and grown; weaving
mother, Eve, her children's clothes; womb-birthed
off-sprung little boys grew brothers in
sum lessened way that memory can, and strove
in grown, thrived in sun beams taut by God,
close; Still evening blessings dew our morn,
plants and waters knowing giving, gossamer
breathed our fashioned earth of woven garments,
garments, garments, garments light has pierced,
both fresh, for dying clothes our earthen hands.