Woman Among Us
your words like huge cities-love them
eyes like the huge will of a waking one
this goddess thing - the woman among us
a gliding decimal point registers
a certain ease with symbolsher heart is a trained mechanism
too far open to adopt camouflage
the sign is green & the light also
no stops will be taken-no options
chosen-this is a weighty pool
a stroll along a fault line
tight & sure & over the edge
soon in metaphysical plate tectonicsI feel your eyes &
the movement of your thoughts
disturb my train of illogic
praise from a high school
teenage bohemian prom queen
from Dallas appears
in a cyber missivewoman undone, unclung,
unfettered, far-flung, far-reaching
moving from the center of the earth
from the bottom of Lake Baikal
from the epi-center of
her collective ground of being mind
Gray Fox Woman
I want men to die of longing for me
to think of me day and night
to whine and moan like dogs
I want a kennel of moaning men
chewing anxiously at my bit
because I am so full of sun
so full of morning light
so full...
that I just wanna fuck everybody
so what is this?
I feel so happy
so full, so free
it makes me wanna
fuck everybody
why can't I do that?
what's wrong with that?
if I can't do that
then what happens to
all this energy?
you can only dance so much
you can only sing so much
you can only write so many poems
you can only fuck the same person so much
so what do you do with all that energy
all that rolling on the grass all that rolling
on the grass in the woods energy
I wanna fall down with rolling
on the grass women
I want gray fox women
rolling on the grass with me
I wanna ring the red bell
for gray fox women
and kennels full of moaning men
to let me know what to do
with all this energy
Wanda Phipps is the author of the chapbook Lunch Poems (BoogLit), and her poems have been published in over 30 magazines and literary journals including Agni, Exquisite Corpse, Hanging Loose and The World. They've been anthologized in Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press), Valentine, Oblek: Writing from the New Coast and Unbearables (Autonomedia). She's a contributing editor for the internet artszine Big Bridge, on the editorial board of the NYC based journal LUNGFULL! and has coordinated several Reading & Performance Series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. She also has a new collection of poems, Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets, forthcoming from Situations Press.
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