Woman Me
Woman Me - meaning Summary
Woman as Powerful Paradox
The poem portrays a woman as simultaneously gentle and monumental, mixing intimate physical imagery with grand political and natural forces. Her smile, tears, and laughter each carry paradoxical power: they soothe and provoke revolution, summon servility and sovereignty, and nourish and shape future generations. The voice treats the woman as a locus of desire, danger, and creation—a force whose private gestures have public, historical, and elemental consequences.
Read Complete AnalysesYour smile, delicate rumor of peace. Deafening revolutions nestle in the cleavage of your breasts. Beggar-Kings and red-ringed Priests seek glory at the meeting of your thighs. A grasp of Lions. A lap of Lambs. Your tears, jeweled strewn a diadem caused Pharaohs to ride deep in the bosom of the Nile. Southern spas lash fast their doors upon the night when winds of death blow down your name A bride of hurricanes. A swarm of summer wind. Your laughter, pealing tall above the bells of ruined cathedrals. Children reach between your teeth for charts to live their lives. A stomp of feet. A bevy of swift hands.
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