Tag: empowerment

The craft is a challenge,
but those who severed her tongue
left her hands intact;
in time her fingers self-cripple with
bow,
brush, 
needle,
nib.

“Talk why don’t you just talk!”
they scream with impatient tongues 
that pummel like fists.
Silent, she turns away.
A conversation is not a competition.
and she is battle sick.

Dexterous and nimble,
this is how she speaks:
stitched ciphers and threaded testimony
type,
tone, 
texture,
tension. 
There are many ways to whisper-
this happened and I exist.