"FACINGFACES 2002 - 04" SELECTED POETRY (Part 2)

In Houston.

Today,
this woman,
hairs hued orange(like popular seventies carpet),
wrinkles swimming across her face
like puddles of paranoid children
in a "learn to swim" YWCA class.

Shared her voice with our air
Gargantuan notes carrying fits of pain,
needed aid.

We sped to her,
found her in lacerated wrappings,
furious flesh rouging rage,
grinning through torn pockets of
expensive, summer clothes,
crouched over..
shoulders pulled to envelope,
dallying knees,
like when native mothers cradle
freshly birthed jungle babies-
placental goo slurping,
entwined
'round legs n' crotch.

she wore drips from her eyes,
thighs soggy
from age and fear.
Stranger jostled her.
Upside down, side to side,
anger rummaging for her things.
"gimmee that, gimmee gimmee",
like an impatient four year old
shakes pennies piggy banked.


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