Eye of the Storm by Barbara Bickel

III

 

This agreement notes

honestly

that your dreams and modesty

won’t find a better landlord

than the gentle corner

of the vagina

and it destines

me to a virginal

and longlasting peace.

This the agreement notes.

Because of being Latina and sweetly and truly inclined

to be made a little tight in the ass by class.

but shameless

in the opinions

the pure intentions

of so many clergy.

A boyfriend is content

and a father takes heart

that in Central

America he always finds

his daughter virginal

and asexual.

 

This agreement instructs

how the male restricts

and knocks up the Central

American female

and Panamanian

 

And from this phallic

omnipotence

my woman worker’s rebellion

protects me.

Because I take the tips of my breasts

small bells

of the most piercing iron

and uproot

this timely hymen

that

gags me

in stinging sexism

and long roll call

of colonial ancestry.

by throwing a fit like a quetzal

I wipe this agreement from the craniums

liquidate it,

with military stealth

bite and pulverize it

like a pointless and dowdy dead thing

I kill it and kill it again

with my red and open sex

a prime bundle of joy

from this ruddy and inflamed America

the Central, my America of rage.

 

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