from: "Three Little Words"
My shattered hands are deer crowns,
rooted stems
that whittle their own path.
Hands so free!
I am a beheaded woman,
a glorified decapitated woman.
My head is a nimbus,
for I am the queen
and my body is the empire.
Lima, Rossy E. “Three Little Words.” Wildness, readwildness.com/4/lima-three. Accessed 30 Mar. 2024.