“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”-from The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Speechless
by Carmen H Gray
why didn’t you say anything?
what froze your tongue?
was it fear, sucking your mouth
stuck, in the murky muck
struck, like backs of our
ancestral sisters
we have struggled
to return to ourselves
to remunerate our homecoming
tumbling from centuries
of tongues tied through the ages
Monarca Rising 