Syracuse Airport
Clean jeans and comfortable shoes
I need no secrets here at home
in this echoless light
I spread my papers out
around me.
Opposite alert
a grey-eyed lady takes fire
one pale nostril quivering
we both know women
who take up space
are called sloppy.
Audre Lorde, in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992
Clean jeans and comfortable shoes
I need no secrets here at home
in this echoless light
I spread my papers out
around me.
Opposite alert
a grey-eyed lady takes fire
one pale nostril quivering
we both know women
who take up space
are called sloppy.
Audre Lorde, in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992
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