Her Brand of Human
Dance,
before taking wings with lyrical figures,
was rooted in the heavy thighed.
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Tag rage
Even A Box of Darkness Can Be A Gift
When Mary Oliver writes, “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness,” she is not suggesting that we not rage against the darkness, that we do not own our suffering, that we stand by and passively say,…
Sometimes I Can’t Shake This Sadness
Sometimes I can’t shake this sadness in spite of all my training.
I can’t seem to wish myself into happiness,
whitewash it with a positive affirmation
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Bleeding out the Wound
I found out today that my beautiful, 17-year-old niece
Has been cutting
Up and down the sacred arm
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After Two Years of Dating in My Mid-Forties
After two years of dating,
I am weary of half-ways and fizzles
and men who have had the primal trained right out of them,
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Is It a Violation?
If he is in-between worlds when
his hand grabs my vulva without invitation,
is it still a violation,
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I Am All Woman
Being a woman
Means I am in the cycle of the Earth’s rhythms
I am Summer
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Straight Women
I left the games of the for-profit
to seek right-livelihood in the non-profit
counsel young girls
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Más Rápido
Te enojas
más rápido que yo
y te calmas
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Flick!
my hands are shaking with fury
in this 80° house
my body shivers
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Scarlet
Confusion
a tornado
my power driving from the center
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My Mother Also Weeps
Today
my sisters were murdered
and though I am childless
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