Embodiment of Fire.
Ravenous, I’ve caged you.
Watched as you paced, hurting, needing..
My lonely tiger. My magnificent beast.
We’re women long past middle age,
come to reveal our old stories,
deciding how to use the page
If I could corral my wild mind, I’d lasso
thoughts of revenge that gallop in when
I’m not engaged in reading or writing.
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'Cause I don't need a man to fuck me
When I can make love to myself
There'll be no
folding, spindling, mutilating
of this woman anymore.
The stars are not hereditary. There was once a prism
and drawn in her, the mystic legend of the hore.
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Break down those doors they built to keep you in.
The metal doors that closed off your mind.
The wooden ones that slammed shut
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There. There it is. My thought, My secret,
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happy father’s day
i say to a death certificate i can’t stand to look at
the paper is flimsy and dull
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Tap, tap, tap dancing to the beat of what I should be,
I could be more confident if I wasn’t so afraid to shine.
I am broken in several areas,
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*Trigger warning: Please note this material may be triggering for sexual assault survivors
Sex, I want to say this word..
Homeless
as a reality
As an innocent teenager
Evicted onto the streets
when you die you can put your ashes inside me
I am used to being a home for the dead.
i’ve seen three geysers erupt
one in reykjavik, the backdrop a glacial terrain
another in Yellowstone, that faithful one
the third came from my mother’s gut
I dig for shelter
in a homespun
endometrial layer
