Her back arched with insecurities hips full of eve's sin. Carved into her ******* are all the planets she has slept with: three. Flesh purple Lips puckered. She was taught about the things that rotate solely around her, About her power About holding her mothers feet in her lap and listening to stories about home. A home she knows only from yellowing photographs and broken proverbs and tales of freedom. She has spent too long dancing with the heavy absence of hands on her waist; With the bitter taste of men sitting on her tongue. With the eyes that follow her like moths to light. Every word she speaks is fire from her teeth, Lighting her face Burning the men who get so close she can smell the eager sweat from their backs. She was taught to howl when the men tell her she is beautiful, She is better than poor adjectives She is endearing, dazzling, fulgurous. but she is not her mother, no matter how hard she tries to be. She is her father; dark, and cold, and drunk, drunk, drunk.