Two sexes emerged at the Garden

As it might have been written by Robert Frost for me

Why yes. Two sexes emerged at the Garden of Eden,
Growing in the blurry distance, from where long I stood
And looked up to (trans) womanhood
To where it bent in the cliff face;

Then looked at manhood, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
“Be fruitful and multiply,” commanded God –
Our (First) Parents begot and begot
Wearing both sexes really about the same,

And both that year equally lay
In leaves almost no steps had trodden black.
Oh, I decided the second for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubt I will ever back track.

I have been telling this with sigh after sigh
With or without a theology degree:
Two sexes emerged at the Garden, and I,
Tiresias, struck a pair of mating snakes,
And that has made all the difference

Dana Pham
12 May 2025