Painted this morning, I
began to wonder
whose back can I scratch
and when I do
will this aid my quest to
take the world
and turn it into a place
I, too, can own?
Create for me such a role;
I will hold the
pen between my fingers and
sign my name!
Tag Archives: Women
Leaving the Table
The woman who gives
too much sends notes
to explain how finding
a something-or-other
made me think of you
and hopes silently that
people are inherently
thoughtful enough to
push in empty chairs
upon leaving the table
Two Halves and a Human
Being a woman,
yes I write about
that which turns life
into the unstable tops
of white-froth waves.
Being a girl,
my mind envisions
when I can next wear
the lemon-print sundress
and with which shoes?
Being both,
I wonder if it is okay
to walk among you showing
both halves of myself
at the same time.
(April 29, 2019)
Girls in the Garden
Hands up with the moon
we weave between beds
flat foot to sodden ground
flowers in the dark, hiding
ourselves and the magic
–the witchcraft and illusion–
that encircles youth and
women who heal with
high mountain herbs.
Next door to normalcy but
never living in that house,
your home has long been
the alignment of the stars,
mathematics of dates and time,
the chant of spells, within
a coven that didn’t exist
there in the garden
some twenty years ago
when we raised our hands
as the midnight clock does,
all together, with the moon
(first written in 2012; revised for ColetteKay.com)
Woman’s Intuition
They say rain will come tomorrow
but I sense it will arrive overnight,
and before the newly birthed day
looks up to find it has become morning
– during the intimate crevice between
ends and beginnings – I may wake
to the sound of the earth
washing itself in the dark.
This is what my bones say.
I am woman.
I feel what is to come.
And you: will you return?
The child thumping across my chest,
bending my ribs, a streak
of anxious wanting coursing in my arms
says this is not the time to plant,
when the soil still needs turning.
Again, I wake in the motionless hours
and consider the intimate spaces.
I long for them as ground for rain.
I must wash myself of this.
I am woman.
I feel what is to come.
Colette Kay 