'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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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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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
1 caretake the lost causes, a mother’s legacy
the healthy ones count their crackers to be seen
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“can you look at it” i asked,
without meaning
to say those words
On Friday’s I search
For your face in mirrors,
visiting bars soft lit by streams of
sapphire bulbs; by eight-o’clock
"I'll never drive on that road again," she said,
as if it was the road who killed him
with her tempting curves
and shimmery guardrail waistband.
Surges of energy rush through my body and captivate my mind
Time stands still as I walk into this other world
The morning sun peeks through the brilliant green canopy
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…This is to say, we now stand on the other side
of those memories, recycling the past
to create this new shape of family…
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I am more than the things that have happened to me. Pain is part, not whole. I can live like a poem: with purpose.
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No word to name it. She knows
this colour like she knows each drop of milk
her mother gives,
how crying is the purest alarm
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Preheat body through fourteen school years coming home sunburnt
after annual sports days on shadeless fields. Pour your time into
cupped hands until overflowing. Keep as many secrets inside….
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Dear little girl, I know you are very young
You are so worried about perfect instead of having fun
Your hair is dark and so are your thoughts
Always thinking about what you are not
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