“woman & water” | “fragility” | by Ariel Galvez
by Ariel Galvez
Woman & Water
What is it like
To be a woman?
Is it a bare desert?
Empty, the sand the only thing you have
To offer
Watch as it slips through your hands
Like water
Or is to be a woman to be like water?
To be the wilderness of
Rivers and oceans
Wet.
Hemingway notes “la mar”
The feminization or,
Demasculization of language
To show
The wild
Are you a sea that is well-behaved?
Calm but breezy
Helpful and sunny
Mermaids and venus
Have risen …