Photo by JOHN VATER

courtney sina meredith

 

as a woman

 
 

*as a woman

is it okay to like petals?

 

*a woman

in front of gold petals

 

*look, her eyes are shut

 

*sometimes I think

 

‘this one looks better

this version right here’

 

*inflamed in leather

 

*saying sorry

 

for no particular reason

 

*sorry, I avoided conflict

 

and took up many causes

 

some of them women

most of them men

 

a sea monster whose wounds

 

matched my own

 

*a woman

 

covered in gold