Why don't you just stand by
like you're used to
sew your lips together with her hair
pluck your eyes like the raven's claw,
rest your tired body in a pond of pitch
and get toasty from the warmth of the world I lit a match to
-feral kenyon
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excerpt from The Feral Woman // aphorisms, poetry, and prose
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the feral woman / aphorisms, prose, and poetry
PoesiaSo often have women been told to subdue their feral natures. Sit pretty and say less; act this way and that or risk being unladylike. Our femininity is putty in the hands of patriarchy, and unless we acknowledge the women inside of us -- the pure, u...
