GIVE AWAY
sometimes all I can manage is the coffee pot
no sugar, splashed milk
there’s no love in the act of shifting
the spoon from one side of a ceramic mug to the other
gloria left a message this morning
said she cannot support women anymore
that the world has to do without her ears and hands
the wetness in the air has left, now barren
the mothers all around me have come to term
and still no birth
we say the world cannot be carried inside anymore
but no one listens
mothers are good, would give their six month notice –
even that won’t be enough to restructure the change
we’ll be left like houses without kitchens
what might be different then about the warmth of my coffee
if women stop holding the universe in their bellies?
there’s no love in the act of shifting
the spoon from one side of a ceramic mug to the other
gloria left a message this morning
said she cannot support women anymore
that the world has to do without her ears and hands
the wetness in the air has left, now barren
the mothers all around me have come to term
and still no birth
we say the world cannot be carried inside anymore
but no one listens
mothers are good, would give their six month notice –
even that won’t be enough to restructure the change
we’ll be left like houses without kitchens
what might be different then about the warmth of my coffee
if women stop holding the universe in their bellies?
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JoAnne Reyes-Boitel ~ poet and writer - queer - mama dyke - cubana/chicana mezcla - cultural worker - working class graphics designer - latin music researcher - libertada y realizada : JoAnne’s work questions gender dichotomies - she starts at the home and moves to the world at large. Winner of the 2001 Alfredo Cisneros de Moral award gifted by Sandra Cisneros, JoAnne also revels in the joy of living in more than one space at any given time, utilizing rhythm and music within her pieces to express a joy for her culture/foundation, and still works poetry as a form of resistance and path to knowledge. Named by Virgil Suarez as a writer to watch out for , JoAnne’s work can be found in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review , Clackamas Review , red palm , RiverSedge , di-verse-city , The Americas Review , Mesquite Review , Ixhua , San Antonio Express-News, Sinister Wisdom and others.
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