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

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