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Original poem reprinted online here: "How to Make Love in the Garden of Good and Evil" by Lo Kwa Mei-en Originally read: September 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Lo Kwa Mei-en "To adaptations of the broken / heart" was the first line to pop out from reading this because the line doesn't come off cliche in the context of the poem.  Rather the line makes more logical sense since the beginning of the poem is a reinterpretation of the Adam and Eve (more focused on Eve) story. "Your nimbus is pouring.  Your halo shows off from under my dress, / bird of light. Unwit cage."  Note the situational play especially with the last two statements in which the cage relates back to where the you's halo appears.  This is just stating there's something tongue and cheek going on here, "In a beginning there was a fruit & a noose / -shaped animal making a woman a woman. One man. I mean anima."  The biblical allusion with "In a beginnin...