The poems that make up the collection Gospel of the Throwaway Daughter are, for the most part, about my vision of what the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene may have been like (I do believe that they were married and/or had an intimate relationship), and what it must have been like for them and the people around them to live in that place at that time and under those circumstances. I've drawn on the New Testament and some of the non-canonical, "gnostic" gospels, as well as on my own imagination and dreams, in order to write the poems. However, I do not consider the poems to be "Christian" poems; as I wrote in the preface I hope that they can be read outside of any particular religion or dogma. Nor are they meant to disparage the beliefs of Christians-they merely reflect my own beliefs.