Woman

 

Woman:

the chef-d'oeuvre held tight by strings and staples;

the diva voice a flash from fracture;

the dancer on a stage of foam.

Woman, whose force directs,

constructs, collapses realms;

whose force is painted on, 

who guiles by artifice. 

Woman, whose might is but

a flash of a flash 

of a flash in time.

Age wearies man

but crushes the feminine.

Woman:

she knows we know she knows.

Woman,

I covet you

and pity you

with equal zealotry.