This is a powerful and punchy collection that refreshes our imagination about a great selection of women, some historical some mythical.
Jack
Before man/woman legal boundary
double-speak, she sat about shabby grass,
tuck skirts into drawers, drew imaginary sword,
surveyed man’s world and judged it
lacking. Before man/woman legal
boundary double-speak said no, she watched
boys/girls courting, rutting, disgust
in her tears and bones. Before man/woman
legal boundary double-speak cried sin, she
fell in love and love and love with girls
who looked like her in line and curve
and mind, and judged them fair. Before man/
woman legal boundary double-speak
thrust and stabbed through realms
of fabric, she watched the life she knew;
knew in young, sad bones she’d have to tear
the boundary designed to keep her our,
rebuild the world.
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