A Goddess Intervenes
In Honor of My Mother, International Women’s Day and the #MeToo Movement
by Jacques Fleury
[From Fleury’s Boston Globe featured book Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir]
Through my senses,
I see sadly her unaffected gazes
Her intrigue’s absences
Her relationship to relationships
Slowly and softly bending
Like two birds sharing a stem
The thin branch softly bending
Sighs with her burden;
Trapped in discontentment
Like Winter’s malevolence,
But she found in her a weather of resilience,
The sounds of her heels on the stoical pavement echoes like
her laughter in the desert paths of remembrance
She throws her head back and laughs
As young men beg for a chance to kill her lack of chance
Her essence glowing like the moon in starless skies
She like a picturesque whirl like a slow-moving storm,
Slowly rushes into a room
Smiles in recognition of her adulation
Then sways her hips ever so lovingly
Among the artful debris
And cocks her head as if to hear the dead
Extending her left ear to face the light
Oblivious to the presence of a challenge
Waiting to hear words to confirm her rights
And a tear from the moon falls into her eyes
Then in her benediction glows
Then in her benediction grows
So she opens her mouth and blows a hue of winter,
But sometimes she opens her mouth and blows a hue of summer,
Depending on the noisiest weather!
One day she opened her eyes in horror
To see the moon a reddish color!
To see her world of beauty in fury
crumbling around her like a fallen deity
So then she crumbles too;
Having been made of snow,
The wrath of the wind broke through her window,
then there she lies like the ashes of winter,
succumbed to the intemperate weather,
Then I watch her die, beautifully die.
Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Spirit of Change Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at: http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–
