Because she has turned away from me,
she doesn't move. She doesn't say a word
when I reach into her hair, touching
until we both laugh.
(c)Jon Pineda 2004
from Birthmark
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale, Il
A full year of poems, a new one every day, from the poets of Virginia (radiating out from Hampton Roads) on the theme of Woman - who she is, who she is not, who she ought to be, her essence, how she sees herself, how women see her, how men see her, how children see her, how the classics see her, how different cultures see her, how history and cultures and mythology see her and have seen her, and on and on ...
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