How To Write A Woman Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

Is to first lay her
down on canvas.
Trace her contours

and where
her emptiness lives
stuff words.

The one I write
doesn't like silence
the way man does.

She moans and screams
and whimpers with
every letter

scratched into her skin.
She isn't stealth inclined
the way man is

who solves the hunt
with an arrow
or an altercation

with a sword since
dudes don't listen
with their heart.

If Pablo had a chance
I wonder
would he have painted

his
many
women

with
an
ax.