She said, “I’m tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
a wedding dress or something white
to wear upon my swollen appetite.”
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: history, Leonard Cohen, love poetry, politics, religion, song lyrics, unsettling
i wish them cramps.
i wish them a strange town
and the last tampon.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: gender, Lucille Clifton, sons, unsettling
Thinking she was the gift
they began to package it early.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Carole Oles, gender, politics, unsettling