Sylvie Baumgartel

Cézanne doesn’t paint what he sees.
His apples are orange.

I pull down my black dress 
& feed my child. 

True domination means 
That all of the desires & impulses 
Come from the submissive;

Sometimes when I get
My period,
I wake up & my bed 
Is a massacre.

I can take even more 
Than he can give.

Pink is the Tuscan sunset. Pink
Are the Vietnamese monk pates
Bobbing under Piero’s True Cross.
Pink is plenty, pink is joy.

Women used to wean their babies
By painting their breasts black.
Hurricane clouds are black.
The Earth is weaning us.