Women Are the Best Lovers
An ode to the way women reach for each other when the world comes undone.
Forget romance. Platonic female love is the most powerful force I know. This is how we stay alive.
She couldn’t send the note
She couldn’t focus on the phone
She couldn’t help or break away,
Her prayers were dead
Her broken home
She couldn’t reach her,
Tried to speak, she couldn’t,
Kids were all alone
In the bathroom, she was huddled
Voice notes attempted through a whimper
She sends music like I love to listen
It was winter…
So she sent gifts
She sent Amazon
The pictures, pranks were tongue-in-cheek
She sent gifts
A dozen roses from
The friend who always—
So she sent gifts
So I would know she was close to me
The posters in my house he posted
So she sent a centerpiece
So she sent gifts
Cuz it’s all she had, she’s tied to other things
My friends are tied in different places, but we have technology
She sends gifts
She sends memos
She sends stickers printed
Strange as strange can be
She’s a gift sending artifact
She sends so threads weave sweaters
Warming from the freeze
She sends fists
She sends switches
She sends
Truth in bags to me
I stand on bitches
Stand on business
She sends everything I needed
With the bricks to build my peace
She sends gifts.