Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

Antler People v. Womb People

The antler people have ways of finding 
The womb people’s poles and knocking 
Them to the ground, if only in the mind. 
The womb people bare their breasts 
To the antler people, if only in the mind, 
To remind them that once they were suckled, 
Once they were in need, helpless, at womb’s mercy,
And still are, as womb is at theirs, 
Who could more probably knock womb 
Into darkness if they chose, and sometimes do, 
Than womb could them, or would, 
Womb more prone to poison than the blow.