In Wolf’s Skin by Titilayo Farukuoye

https://stewedrhubarb.org/ 

Having heard Titilayo read their powerful Free Bleed from Fourteen Poems issue 14 I had to get this pamphlet – it is amazing.

One poem from it …

The Body Is Not An Apology

after Sonya Renee Taylor

And yet I apologise.

I step outward

step back     ward

                    duck

                             lean away.

Slide

     pull in my belly

pull in from behind

                               step on my toes

                    duck again

My body is not an apology

and yet

     It’s the only thing

I’ve taught it to do.