LOOK AT ME AS IF YOU HAD NEVER SEEN A WOMAN BEFORE

(Judith Rae Grahn)

I'm not a girl
>I'm a hatchet
I'm not a hole
I'm a whole mountain
I'm not a fool
I'm a survivor
I'm not a pearl
I'm the Atlantic Ocean
I'm not a good lay
I'm a straight razor
Look at me as if you had never seen a woman before
I have red, red hands and much bitterness

Untitled by Judy Grahn, The Work of a Common Woman