To See What Rises

$19.00

CW Books, 2023

Diana Explains about Actaeon

It wasn’t modesty, I’m gorgeous,
although aeons older than the stars
you discard at first sag. A goddess
has no expiration date. And no,
I won’t titillate you with descriptions
of my eyes or muscle tone. There’s
far too much of that in poems.

No boy can reduce me
to a worn-out trope – woman exposed
or shining in the light
of the male gaze.
He needed to learn
how an object feels

I cast my spell.
I called the dogs.

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