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the seventh day of the seventh month
finds the thousand girls temple supplicants still stuck
with the wives of shallow heart wondering how
long they will have to wait for the rebirth of glory wondering how
long til they get to the violent part of the story as if what happened
between toxic spouses wasn’t traumaporn enough when a woman
gets used to her body being used to soothe
the tempers of her tethered tortured torturer she can struggle to see
the horrors as they are and they are
impatient for healing impatient for change
impatient with themselves and their recalcitrant brains the meditation is
working even when it feels like it’s sticking the work is
wading and in the mud of the abbess’s past selves there is
a path out a lesson that took a thousand cycles to master and they are after
a speed run samsara learning for once
from secondhand suffering that it was always
enough it was always time to leave it was never
too early you can always walk
away.
finds the thousand girls temple supplicants still stuck
with the wives of shallow heart wondering how
long they will have to wait for the rebirth of glory wondering how
long til they get to the violent part of the story as if what happened
between toxic spouses wasn’t traumaporn enough when a woman
gets used to her body being used to soothe
the tempers of her tethered tortured torturer she can struggle to see
the horrors as they are and they are
impatient for healing impatient for change
impatient with themselves and their recalcitrant brains the meditation is
working even when it feels like it’s sticking the work is
wading and in the mud of the abbess’s past selves there is
a path out a lesson that took a thousand cycles to master and they are after
a speed run samsara learning for once
from secondhand suffering that it was always
enough it was always time to leave it was never
too early you can always walk
away.
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Anna Geoffroy is a Massachusetts-based poet, propagandist and pope (non-exclusive). She is the co-host of the live-to-tape Contro-Verse open mic in Malden and editor of the Holy Nonsense project. She has performed at festivals, galleries, coffee shops and porch fests from Manchester to Mansfield, and other places not starting with the letter M. Her poetry has been published in Oddball Magazine, The Blood Rag, the Depose Anthology, and the Massachusetts Bards 2025 Poetry Anthology. You can also find her poetry and artwork featured in the 2022 Lines Connecting Lines exhibit at UMA, the Malden Covid Memorial, and a street post near you. qgpennyworth.com | Contro-Verse open mic
The momentum here, of stuckness and of movement, is gorgeous.
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