Power and Magic

I'm getting ready to write a chapter-- getting the ideas together and just starting to see the scenes in my head. The native americans talk of women's power as the sustaining power. I was thinking about that today; what defines the power of a woman? What is woman's magic? Nurturing, sustaining, connecting, alluring.

and a poem came of it:

You could say that it's like a cloak
But you'd be wrong. Nor like a skin.
It shines earthen fire from her eyes,
Breathes the zephyr wind from her pores.
It sings electric in the rake
Of the lioness' slick claw,
You feel it in the ceaseless sea,
Taste it in the sweetness of a
Sun warmed peach, wet across your lips.
And if you say that the warm, soft
Sweetness of a peach
Has no real power,
You'd be wrong again.