Adam and Eve in the Garden

The church teaches our body is sinful.

Sin is shameful dirtiness;
the templed mind

is never stained
unless the unguarded eye pollutes it.
The sinful eye's to blame 

for ogling the skin

rather than the soul beneath it—

the substantial, immortal mind

dazzled, mistaking bane

for sweetness. Our parents learned
their bodies were sinful

when they got moral knowledge
and left the garden.
Thenceforth, the archon, Mind,

would lock the body in a cage of sin—
Mind, the whipped horse’s pious rider.
     But Jesus made the resurrected body          
     the same as the templed mind.