Friday 2 October 2015

Typographical Error

Benodbehari's flowers
and the women with big eyes 
in the garden.
Are they too far now?
Too far to make sense, of 
this country for no women?

No country for women
No-country

The woman without a country,
does she count?

She counts trees in her cuntry.
Disloyal to Word.
Disloyal to Country.

Making errors have come 
to make sense.
She types her cast away.

It may be beautiful, but it is not home.
It may be country, but it is not warm.

Between the mother's thighs,
the hard grip of soft flesh,
the release of blood and life,
her birth-place.

Each woman's cuntry,
Each woman's birth, an act of disloyalty.

No, she doesn't count in No-country.
The country of no, is no birthplace,
it knows no yes.


August 2015