Two voices calling

The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson —————————– Abstract, by Georgia O’Keefe

April 2. Today’s challenge is to write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word. We were prodded in the direction of two artists, Georgia O’Keefe and Anne Carson, neither of who I’d heard of before, in between which I went in search of some common ground on which grew contemporary conversations about women’s voices.


Two voices in texts.
Two voices, one sex.

What words were meant to utter from that earlobe shell?
What pain bled on pages of stolen heart-notebook hell?

Two texts, one voice.
One sex, what choice?

Was this your blouse that paintclothed your breast?
Or yours, the goggle-pearled boobies that in a muscle rest?

Two truths in texts?
A sleuth to inspect.

Does the author lie, while a reader seeks the truth?
Disrobe me not, my fruit tastes better without proof.


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