Category Archives: Poems

It has already lost one of its testicles. And all its arguments. And the ground upon which it’s anchored shifting fast, disappearing never to return. It has no option but to transform and disappear. Otherwise the days of the remaining testicle are also numbered. It took millennia to crush and throw away the right testicleContinue reading “It’s Good that Patriarchy is Losing”

That night when we found love from our wounds The night when our tears birthed hope Under the yellow moon that gently lit that pond The pond into which we held and tossed in a pebble together From one little rupture on the soft silky golden waters I remember the ripples that formed and spreadContinue reading “That Night”

My resistance to tuck in early is directly proportional to my easiness to tuck in until I’m fully sleep satiated. Unless there’s an emergency. The fear and pain of sometimes having to wake up unnecessarily early because a market designed by slavers said so is something I don’t quite easily get over for a longContinue reading “Not a bird. Not a worm”

when this dew dries and the grass withers when the chirping of the morning bird stops and the smoldering morning smoke clears when the earth dries up and swallows life and the singing children go quiet in exhaustion i will remember the soothing ache of loving the transient perpetuity of hope the huddling sullenness ofContinue reading “i now remember”