Who is not Geena Davis

I do love a woman
who comes out fighting
back against the wall
who is not
Geena Davis on a waterwheel
in a poem where she struggles
in the bubbles - surfaces – a conch
and clam in her hands,
knife between her teeth.

I do love a woman
who is not Thelma, nor Louise,
nor a flat earther in Dover believing cliffs
have no edges – I do love her
and wouldn’t drive over, either.

I do love a woman, deeply
I do know myself, for what
good they said, is a conch and a clam
if the one that loves you
cannot understand this trumpeting silence?




5/2020