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I Wanted to Write a Dyke

Posted by Red Balloon on May 11, 2019May 17, 2019

KAUSHALYA BANNERJI

I wanted to write a dyke poem

in your face rhetorical

a poem unbound angry as my curves

aching as the words you never see

me throw

I wanted to write a dyke poem

struttingjeans ungirdled

fists that caress like fingers

a poem as inspiring as Bonnie

as Thelma and Louise as defiant

as Lila and Urmila

as erased by your herstory as Malinche and Draupadi

I wanted poems

as hungry as Kali

fertile as Yemaya

bursting with women’s sad miracles like Mary

I wanted to write a dyke

Published by Red Balloon

I am a chronically ill queer artist and writer. I have a number of degrees in higher education and have spent most of my life interested and active in social movements against racism, militarism, misogyny and homophobia. Over the course of my life, I have worked in the world of alternate news, translation, law, teaching, and with progressive cultures, music, poetry, performers, and artists. I speak and understand a few languages and plan to share media in them on this blog. I am a poetry, art, music, and nature lover with an especial fondness for cats! View all posts by Red Balloon