By Soon Jones
My cup runneth over,
fingers sticky with blood.
Empty egg full of potential
flushed down the toilet.
“Honor your inner divinity.
This is womanhood,
this is your God-given purpose.”
No, this is bullshit.
This is no sweet blessing
on my uterus, no sacred hand
guiding red-black clots through my cervix.
This is a thunder-roar leviathan
uncoiling in the womb.
Soon Jones is a Korean lesbian poet from the rural countryside of the American South. Their work has been published in Juke Joint, Westerly, beestung, and Moon City Review, among others. They can be found at soonjones.com.
