Some wombs
House cysts not children
Cramps, not comfort
Monthly punching bags
Scrambled self esteem
Eggs over, not easy
Not sunny, not poached
Ovary omelet, no onions all tears
Fried, unfertilized, fibroids
Torn, twisted, tender tubes
No two uteruses are alike
Some septate, one sided, tilted
Some empty
Some born without
Some create bellies
Some are not ready
Some are not interested, but judged
No more wounded wombs from weary words
All wombs are valid
And if no womb, is still valid
Because all bodies are valid
Let all bodies just be
Karina Guardiola-Lopez, MSED, is a Honduran American Jew from NY/NJ. She is a poet, writing coach, educator, and author of Textual Time Capsules (2021), Jewtina Journals (2016), and co-author of Live Big Girl (2017). Her works have appeared in New Brunswick Library (2023), Hive Avenue Journal (2022), LaLiberta Online (2021), For Women who Roar, (2020), Great Weather for Media (2020), Indolent Books (2020), and many others. She has featured at The NYC Poetry Festival at Governor's Island, The National Black Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, The Bronx Museum, just to name a few. She has created a collection of poetic stickers, magnets, and a card deck for writers to inspire and motivate writers to write their story. For more information visit www.kglopez.com.
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