This poem is taken from Stand 232, 19(4) December 2021 - February 2022.

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Two Poems
My Vagina is a Machete
St Andrews, Barbados, 1790 & Christ Church, Barbados, 2003


                      an octopus tree                                         can testify to this

   its tentacles point to                                    de overseer’s remains                    he lay with

   rats                                     & captives                    found himself
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