By evoking Lillith, the first wife of Adam in Judaic and Babylonian mythology Stead offers an imaginative depiction of this classical figure.
Spat from the tomb
In wily procession –
Angel hair
And twelve heads.
Levitate, hungry
With the stench of
Poison
Darkness stirs
In her throat,
Out with a flame.
Teeth bared – bloodied tines,
Biting the wrist of God.
