Lola Lemire Tostevin
from Double Standards
as reproduced in Sp/elles
do not be deceived by appearances
I am not a woman I am a poem[…]
do not be deceived by appearances
I am not a woman I am a sequence
dismembered each organ fastened
to a verb the mouth to speak
the ear to hear the eye to see
saw to and fro the contours of my
topic the red raw of lips that
spread to read mine the voice
that travels the long curves and
turns of the poem’s socket as it
locks it to bear in mind
Gwen Benaway
from “Fuck Your Fear”
Holy Wild
a body is a paragraph,
a poem waiting to be written.a body is a story,
a character in an imagined world.a body is a grave,
a dead space between lovers.a body is a promise,
a gift of histories colliding.
And so for day 2624
18.02.2014