"Mary’s Cross" is composed of images that span the cycle of her womanhood. As mother who is entirely with us, so is she formed with buds and flowers, roots and leaves. Each image of Mother Mary at a different stage of her “flowering” corresponds to a poem and every poem appeals to Mary as an ideal of peace the world has yet to realize or responds to the violence currently sweeping the Holy Lands. As the Jewish girl who became both mother to a prophet for Muslims and mother to the Messiah for Christians, Mary becomes the flashpoint in a time of religious divide for mothers whose children have been lost to the religious intolerance of our day. If we consider Mary as the mother at the crossroads of three monotheistic faiths, this cross invites one to imagine a place where all arguments about God can, or should, cease, and instead, one might hear the weeping of many Christian, Jewish and Muslim mothers. At this cross of Mary, we women lament on behalf of mothers all over the world who mourn and must endure their sorrow.