Dark hands and Blood legends are
paternal engines stolen from
the memory of women beaten by
mouthfuls of silent lead secreted
from blurred civil wars names burning
from snakes tongue borne into
nameless wine cork
beneath the bloodmyths
The women behind the machines and
morphine webs stroked
numb in theatres
Whose skulls are like stone bowls
Whose hands are like straw
The names of their murdering children
are as old as the names of rivers
One of the themes I touch on is the history of American slavery. Yeah. The kind the "forefathers" were pretty keen on. Further on is how women for most of the 20th century were household slaves.