and sex once
a day a week a
month a year
goes by and one
...
Like all children Mz N lived
in archaic
mythic zones
and all the neighbors and kin played their parts to a T
...
It's not that I'm opposed
to poison in my lips
or pig in my soap—
it's not that I'm opposed.
...
Recalcitrant elephants
begin to attack.
The angry young males
of murdered mothers.
...