Birth of the Universe

Birth of the Universe

Brenda Quezada

The Sun sets the sky as it’s rippling it with red waves of scorching lava, swirls of orange-pink cotton candy clouds, with baby shades of blue tides that sweep up the ocean oor and into the atmosphere.

Brother sun is now asleep, and the night has brought its stars to light the constellations

I must climb up to the roof somehow I need to climb up to the roof because I must take a good look at Mother Moon.

As I lay back on the roof shingles the sandpaper is scraping my delicate skin like a cat's tongue

I’m obsessed with the way I watch Moon undress as she puts Earth to rest Feeling her breeze nipping my breasts, I make love to Mother Moon while the stars expose our naked esh in the dark We create constellations as she takes me to a climax that transcends into a milky way beyond the cosmos

BIRTHING THE UNIVERSE

©2023 Feminist Formations, Vol. 35 No. 1 (Spring) pp. 293–294

Brenda Quezada is a Queer, Mexican-Indigenous writer and poet based in the Central Valley of California as an undergraduate at Fresno State University. Her academic work is rooted in her passion for queer theory, feminism, topics of gender and ethnicity, while she embodies decolonial interrogations of systems of oppression through her intersectional resistance. Brenda’s poetry and spoken word express her joy in the liberation of autonomy with her self-re exive nature, as she believes writing is a healing tool passed down by her ancestors’ persistence. Brenda enjoys punk rock, drag, spending time with her three dogs in nature and writing poems under the moon. She aspires to get a master’s degree in creative non ction writing and publish books of poetry and memoir.