Issue 14 - Voice of Eve

Voice of Eve

ISSUE 14 - JUNE 15, 2019

ART AND POETRY BY

ANASTASIA K. GATES

Mourning Cry

ANASTASIA K. GATES

To the men who’ve called woman high maintenance: how you dare, when woman maintained you into existence, died for you and because of you, cupped you in her uterus, her nipples, her neck and sip every drop of nectar from her petals as you rip her to early death. to all those slick men in suits who slander what it means to pour out from the inside until one is dry and severed, remember it is woman that maintained all men before you to life— in breath, in space, a place for your righteous tongues, your heavy shoes and bloody guns. before you strike the blunt end of your reign, smoked thick in his plastic voice —listen from under your killing feet the mourning cry of the mother who gave you this throat to hang yourself on.

MARIE A

UGUSTE

Contempt

MARIE AUGUSTE

The contempt in your eyes could not be matched By the love I held for you But breaking hearts never did have a match Nor has there been a barter great enough To bargain with Grief When the demons of Loss set their eyes on my spirit And you condemned me to die I was split into a million pieces Like sand on a beach And it is there that the oceans parted So that my fire may burn And that I may rise from the ashes of Death itself