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By Patricia DavisAdded: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 / Used with permission.about his sister how she
wanted
to be lightbuilt night in her ribs
cage strangled
the moon how a finedown feathered her
crept from sternum
to navelhow her foot
bones ached
from the groundwhen a woman
is left with no
wingswhen she forgets
to counsel
her shadowforgets to wind it
out like lace
when the skyis too blank too
wide she might
make bladesof her shoulders
raise ridges of bone
wait to fledgeJesus humble
poor despised
would be a womantoday obese in white pants
butt dimples
pocking the fabricJesus crucified
a woman
young pocketsand mind full of riches
silent
angling a mirrorto see how her
butt might be
takenhow hunger
could make it
lovely bearablevanish
I will tell
my daughter soshe knows
her body the body
of every womanis sun
seedbed
doorwaythe body
of every woman
is God
Patricia Davis' poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Salt Hill, the Atlanta Review, Quiddity, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology, and Smartish Pace. Her translations of Cuban poetry have been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, and the New Laurel Review. Her chapbook, The Water that Broke You, was published by Finishing Line Press.