Jack D. Forbes

Women Made of Earth and Honey

I think a lot about these
maple-syrup coloured girls

About

mountain-honey nut-brown ladies
About

deep, dark molasses women
About

golden-brown-sugar girls
About

red-brown earth coloured ladies
About

rich smelling, soft-hard Mother Earth women
Her same colours

all browns and reds

and blacks.

Giving thanks to Our Creator

for making

so many kinds of women-folk

different shades of brown

and shapes and sizes

smelling of sage and pine and wild grasses
Just to satisfy

my mind.

Brown wood-toned women
suffering
strong
surviving
With little children around them
bringing forth
the generations
Our lives passing through
their
bodies.

I can’t speak of all women
but these women I know
Indian
Black
Mexican and more

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