BILLIE TADROS
Twenty-Six Words for Vulva:
A is for Aperture
Departure as a part of her
the door abjured
(The most jarring part— how many holes, the human body: socket
Then she was a darkroom, spoke of depth of field and splay (close:
and I—
ajar.
follicle atrium)
her screaming eye begging
trachea valve)
entry, light
shot
through passage like a wound.
POETRY | 91