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.
2019
Regular
Contemporary
2023
Agency
Politics
Womanhood
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”