Like the cruelty of clothes
belted
strapped
buttoned down
zipped up
these flat
pressed women
ironed hard
metal smoothed
starched
of impulse
to tear
or rip
or strip.
Stitched back
to front
restrictions
shore
convictions.
“Everything that happens in the universe has an impact on who I am, how I live, and what I write: thought, word, deed. Everything I think, I write, I speak has an impact on the world; like the...