Thursday, September 24, 2020

Linda Hogan: The Women Speaking

Painting: In Sisterhood We Rise, cc Olivia Marie
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The Women Speaking

And the Russian women in blue towns
are speaking.
The flower-dressed women of India,
women in orange tents,
dark women
of the Americas
who sit beside fires,
have studied the palms of their hands
and walk toward one another.

It's time
to bless this ground.
Their hair is on fire from the sun
and they walk narrow roads toward one another.
Their pulses beat
against the neck's thin skin.
They grow closer.

. . .

Daughters, the women are speaking.
They arrive
Over the wise distances
On perfect feet.
Daughters, I love you.

 

Linda Hogan

 

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