Sister
Today I saw a woman plowing a furrow. Her hips are broad, like mine, for love, and she goes about her work bent over the earth. I caressed her waist; I brought her home with me. She will drink rich milk from my own glass and bask in the shade of my arbors growing pregnant with the pregnancy of love. And if my own breasts be not generous, my son will put his lips to hers, that are rich.
Sister - meaning Summary
Sisterhood as Shared Nourishment
The poem presents an immediate, intimate bond between the speaker and a working woman whose body resembles her own. The speaker brings the woman into a shared domestic space and imagines mutual nourishment through milk, shade, pregnancy, and a child. Its vision of sisterhood joins erotic tenderness with maternal abundance, treating care as something that can cross conventional family boundaries.
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