“ Erudition & Wit “ ...

” Erudition & Wit “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Erudition and wit
bristling supposed
disorders of women

Apollonian purity
as hope for male objectivity
“Poetry is the connecting link
between body and mind”

a difference of quantity
and not of kind exiled
from the center of life

voyaging
from nonbeing
and back
breaking free
from matter as
a secret sacred space
no longer the same

“Kill the imagination,
lobotomize the brain,
castrate and operate:
then the sexes
will be the same.”

tamed via ritual formulae
trying to suppress nature
yet never really eradicated
replaying arcane uncanny
incantations rising and falling
oceanic waves reordering
spuming and frothing...