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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sophie Segura was born in Ireland and has lived in Argentina since 2006. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in About Place, Irish print and online journals Banshee, The Well Review and The Honest Ulsterman, and an anthology, Autonomy (New Binary Press, 2018). She has also written (as Sophie Parker) for The Irish Times, Time Out Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires Herald.
Poets Resist
Edited by Cody Stetzel
September 14, 2018
Edited by Cody Stetzel
September 14, 2018
Declaration of the Lactating Woman
Show us our maize, our beans, our breasts
sold back to us as family-size buckets
as eighteen-dollar power breakfasts
as inferior to powdered approximations.
This is New & Improved.
This is Pediatrician-Approved.
This is Freedom in an aluminum can.
Crazy Horse fed from the breasts
of all his Mothers.
Deolinda’s motherless son
survived in the Cuyan desert,
her dress unbuttoned.
A woman with no last name
promised me I was sustenance
enough.
A man with a PediaSure calendar
showed me I was resistance.
This is the taste of home in a wilderness.
This is Nourishment.
This is Sovereignty.
This is the strong medicine.
Note: The US delegation to the May 2018 UN-affiliated World Health Assembly, in apparent support of formula companies’ interests, is reported to have threatened government officials from other countries in an attempt to weaken a resolution to encourage breastfeeding worldwide.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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