The inky pen has fallen from my hand
As I lay my body on the bed
It dropped uncapped like shell on sea edge sand
As I find I ‘m born but never wed
I see my body sprawl on sheets of red
My choices have never been called bland
In the daytime, am I read or dead?
I look down and see unwritten bond
A barren woman is forever damned?
No child has she, but blood overwhelming shed
The fig tree laughed as Jesus was condemned
I see myself from high above my bed
No library was built for women’s works
In the space between the men we lurk
