One poem – ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑ

i remember
sobbing
	sobbing 
		sobbing
to you
when she died

for us,
crying is how we
show our neck

our soft belly to the
panther's sickle
	to say:
'you may strike me
if you so please'

i carry grief
like the midwife carries
water in the woven
basket

like the spring
like the
(womb / wound)
of the earth
it only
	trickles
		out

Arturo Cota is a Chicano poet from California’s San Joaquin Valley. His work has appeared in Soft Cartel, Angry Old Man Magazine, and Oak: A Journal Against Civilization.

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