"A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER’S GHOST Where is all the woman ..."

“A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER’S GHOST

 

  

                               Where is all the woman

                               you were born with?

 

Everywhere.

I’ve been setting it down

in pieces my entire life.

  

                              This is the body your mother and I

                              made for you. Why

                              isn’t it good enough?

 

It is good, but it’s not finished yet.

  

                             Do you wish you’d been born a boy?

 

I wish I’d been born an ocean.

Alive and boundless,

with a name too wild

to fit in man’s mouth.”

- A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER’S GHOST by Ashe Vernon