Woman

Writing

Reese

By Haley Kleinman
issue 21

Her hands were golden, as if baked under runny sun,
Yolk dripping into the palms,
Painting her in ancient warmth
As her fingers held the cigarette to her lips, allowing the aged paper to crack her mouth open
Autumn afternoon senior year ‘08

the unspoken
poetry
Woman

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Woman

By Sarah Woods
issue 12
best of elementia 1-15

Woman.
Care-taker, life-giver,
nurturer, chef, doormat.
Woman.
Raised to believe my gender put
me on the bottom.
I am to please, not to be pleased.
I am the inferior, the weak, the
soft, the submissive.
Already born with joy, told to

Feminism
Woman
self-identity

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