the men have brought escape
the men have brought escape they train us to plant seeds in the darkest / parts of the forest . . .
Metta Sáma
Metta Sáma is the author of After “Sleeping to Dream”/After After (Nous-zot Press, 2014), Nocturne Trio and South of Here (published under her legal name, Lydia Melvin). She is assistant professor, director of creative writing, and director of the Center for Women Writers at Salem College.
we are washed of language
we are not scaling we are hunters in this drape called body we have / hardened our old selves pricked peeled consumed . . .
It was the year we turned to dragons
snaked our way through harsh fields of sunflowers petals
landing on us heavy & dirty & we were beginning to lose sense
of direction became distracted by time the oblivious faces of
sunflowers watching themselves shed become ...