Poetry: Big Woman

Big Woman

by Kim Benjamin

This is is the place I wanna be/this moment of woman/full round and seamless/I feel woman carnival/woman bazaar/woman extravaganza/with big lips to kiss/lips/cheeks and ass/yes ass/my husbands who makes me/woman feel good/feel proud/feel woman monument/woman hot air balloon/woman credits on big screen with big titties down to my knees/look heavy but light/like single lock in center palm/leakin big drops of sweet milk for big mouths and big children/who call me big mama/yes mama/I’m gone have a baby/baby universe/baby galaxy/baby world/tween my big hips/an legs/hug you to rest safe and feel good/like granma said/yes granma said/I would have days like this/moment of woman parade/woman palooza/woman jubilee/all woman/feel in my hair/ in my feet/ tween my toes/cross my skin/feel woman in my heart/ poundin tambourines/dancin all woman wild/and nasty too/all here and big/big/Biiig arms spread out pushin back east and west/woman need room/gone fly/woman skin flappin neath arms/thighs rubbin together/gigglin loud static pops/gotta get undressed/takin off my clothes to be all this /naked moment/call up wind/lift me /so I can see this place full of woman fire/where all this is mine /woman odyssey/woman revelation/woman out of body experience/I did this/I am woman miracle/woman creator/woman/God!/I feel good.

This is the first online publication for Kim Benjamin, a 2001 PEN USA Emerging Voice fellow and member of the Anansi Writers World Stage community. Other poems she has written have been published in The Drumming Between Us, California Quarterly, Black Love, and Kalliope.




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