UN Secretary-General’s message on International Women’s Day: rights, justice and action for all women and girls.
Below are my poems selected for reflections on the many faces of womanhood:
hazy twilight ...
rain washing a mother's blood
into her children's blood
New Life
cellar shelter
her newborn suckles
in sleep
smoke-filled sky
beyond the cellar window ...
look on her baby's face
another
night of artillery fire
her breastmilk runs dry
the burning photo
of gold-crowned Donald Trump ...
the flame licks upward
then a Nenee Good lookalike
lights her cigarette
vigil candlelight
flickers in a woman’s eyes
No Means No
a red handprint
across the young woman's mouth ...
she stands alone
on scattered maple leaves
in the divorce court's shadow
a girl
pirouetting alone
in the cherry blossom rain
as if tomorrow
has yet to find her
dewdrops on the tip of a leaf
the ballerina holds her pose
a box of letters
beneath the attic lamplight
other side of Mother
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