Sistersong

What is this bond
that we females dwell on?

Is it estrogen
or the common denominator -

Man
full of errors

False hope
and matronly dreams

I quake at the thought
that we are bonded

Merely
out of fear

Getting Over It

I am all tied up
and grinding inside
fighting steam
and the sweat that clings
bloodshot eyes
and sleepless nights
rage against my body
tearing limb
and wringing hair
from mother's womb
ripped
and sent out
crying

Girl in Black

OH Syllvia!
Where are you?
And why dd you decide
to end it all?

In a stove
of all things
why not
pills?

Everyone famous
did it with pills
or drowning
rocks in their pockets

Mrs. Dalloway
went that way
so why not you
with closed eyes

Why not one
drunken
car crash
like Mr. Pollack?

You should have raised cats
with three legs
and lived on an island
in Florida

What of "Renascence"
who chose to live
hard and without edit
until it all ended on the stairs?

It just seems so foolish
that you should have a following
when you decided not
to believe anymore

Or had you seen
too much
the darkness
and regret of life?