Drawn unconsciously,

unconditionally 

with charcoal on her own body

as woman in water and 

water in woman.

Woman on sand | she’s magnetic 

Woman who can’t be | pulled away

Woman deprived | reunited at last

Woman meeting her beginning 

millenia ago when her only ancestors 

were ocean and moon.

Tribute, sacrifice, prayer for the same blood 

that nourishes her body,

that has been everywhere-

Mariana trench, Amazon rainforest, Bermuda triangle, 

feminine water feeding planet in crisis.

Half moon bowl soaking up smog,

saving trees by killing men. 

Rageful, glowing, taken by rope,

woman harnesses ocean wind to 

blow out her birthday candles, 

gusts splitting the Atlantic,

temperament; tempera paint 

marking her language as feminine. 

Sketches birthing a new woman, 

ready-made, share size girl 

on the floor of a city that can’t look her 

in the eye.