Blessed Imbolc! In the spirit of Idle No More, my annual offering to Brigid comes from Lee Maracle, First Nations poet and author.
Bent Box (My Song)
My song hails
from a bent box
drums of earh tears
enjoys the unbending
of woman spirit
issued through a voice
cloaked
in androgynous souls.
This voice
penetrates silence
cracks barriers.
I can build
a bent box, shape its womanly contours
build fire from moss
light lives
sing man-song
birth children.
But I cannot penetrate
the dark hidden pleasures
of
my
womanhood.