Rematriation

Joe Campbell’s heroes had a thousand faces,

I search for goddesses with a thousand faces;

Inana, Isis, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Kuan Yin, Nuwa, Abuk, Demeter, Persephone,

words float to the surface as I float naked in my 

morning tub, remembering that Zapotec woman, oppressed but cleansed and healed with bathing; dignity restored.

And while bathing, the thought emerges; that as we work to rewild, replant, and reinvent; and as we speak our experience as truth,

the final twist of the labyrinth, Ariadne’s gift, led by indigenous women, is

the gift of Rematriation.