What She Doesn't Know Yet Is That

Thursday Poem (Audio)

What She Doesn’t Know Yet Is That

it takes time to settle into the body
from the body
as it moves through the world

To hear with your feet
you have to take off your shoes
your obligations

you have to give up your one story
you have to unwrap your holy wounds

and reclaim the profane body
touch

the vulva, labia
the walls of the vagina
weeping, reposing

because the world began here
for someone, and began again then
for you, and again now

(From The Elephants Have Been Singing All Along, Wigestrand forlag 2017)

The poetry I put in the world is part of a practice of hope. I invite you to write an answer poem and copy it or link to it in the chat!

Ren Powell’s Acts of a Recovering Drama Queen
Writing against Melodrama by Engaging with the Real World—

taking a cue from Nature, whose matter-of-fact dramas can be seen from shifting points of view & embracing the paradox of acceptance and hope.

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