Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Women



The Women


Now the women will waft
upon islands in murmurs
of lilac scarves, all
wisdom and appetite.
They are coming
with puckered bellies, with
mushrooming thighs.
They are coming
in force, overtaken
by the thrust of their reveries.
They have all intents
of eating their fill, of filling
themselves at long last.

Now the women will stream
lavender tea in their hair.
The women will lay
heavy on hot talcum sand
and gorge on the will of the light.
The women will sleep
when it suits them, and wail
when they mourn, and remember
that which has rendered their flesh.


--Kristen McHenry

1 comment:

Frank Moraes said...

This is good—better than that smut poem. It makes me think that I will be killed: torn apart by an angry mob of women. It will be unfair and thus just.