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Flexible as the turtle's spine, the hinge of the jaw

that breaks during laughter,

as my heart beats in anger

the mysteries of mothers and daughters

are deciphered and re-written within my own body.

There are rooms empty of people

deep within me

except for the child

weeping pearls and tears

as my father extinguishes my mother through the brown and silver years and the ghosts of old love affairs fill the place that I kept for her.

Tell me who you are.

I say this to myself

and to you.

Tell me about the eggs you found in the sand,

the weeping mother turtle crawling towards the water. Tell me how everyone laughed as you limped across the room.

How your father's heart broke in anger.

How my mother asked me to tell her

if there was any more blood.

It's night now,

the whole world is dark and quiet.

Someone may have left

a red flower on my doorstep,

walking through the rain to reach me.

Someone may be thinking

that they'll give me a mirror

to reflect my pearls.

Someone may be writing me a letter

like one that's been written before.

Tell me who you are.

And tell me if I'm like you.

In the darkness, in the absence of color

I'm writing Gunner blindly

all over my body.

I'm writing in an effort to reach you.

Tell me if you hear.

Tell me if the turtle's reached the sea.

Tell me if you've built a house

of pearls and tears.

Tell me if ghosts

believe in mysteries.

-Mary A. Morris

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Mother, May I?

If this were a game, it was a cruel sport of Schoolteachers, from whom we learnt, Albeit slowly, to relinquish powers Born in us, to anyone who asked.

Sisters, cousins, mothers, aunties, and Even friends took precedence.

Often, eager brothers had only to wait,

In order to receive first fruits and larger shares.

Child-woman and womyn-children should play King of the Mountain and mumblety-peg, and Find steady eyes around the marble ring,

As well as hands gentle enough for kittens, and toads.

Our daughters need to see the rectilinear Shadows of Stonehenge and Golgotha, where Stone and steel and the scents of sacrifice Annihilate dreams of safety within softness.

'I need to know for certain that Cain and Abel were truly brothers, and that There were no sisters with whom-the Food might have been shared.

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If Patriarchs did indeed

Beget daughters, also,

Why is it that our Books do not

Tell us their names?

-Nancy Ellis