Alison Malee

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Alison Malee is a poet, artist, author, and performer. She has published three poetry collections (Shifting Bone, The Day Is Ready For You, and This Is The Journey) and is signed to Writer’s House Literary Agency. Her work has been featured all over the world, including The Huffington Post, Bustle, Poetic Power, The American Library of Poetry, and Tiffany and Co. Alison teaches poetry and creative writing workshops for all ages and writing backgrounds. She currently resides in New York with her husband and their children, probably reading some form of prose or another. Source

All I Can Tell You

all i can tell you

is that the women i know are not fiddling

with their thumbs.

 

are not teacup women,

little fragile women.

 

the women i know

are loud like lightning

crack, boom.

 

loud like thunder,

loud like overcome.

 

like indescribable

adversity will not stop us

loud like snap,

like applause.

 

like do you know

who we are.

 

loud like change.

loud like it is time to work.

loud like riot. Like whisper.

 

like women that

softly,

gently,

 

yank the closed door off of the hinges,

and say thank you.

 

loud.

 

like just wait

until you meet us.

Published:

2019

Length:

Regular

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Agency

Politics

Womanhood

Literary Devices:

Anaphora

a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences

Rhetorical Question

a question asked for effect, not necessarily to be answered

Simile

a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”