Riehlife Poem of the Day: Sandra Kohler’s “Why a Woman Can’t Be a Pope”
Nina’s Night 22″ x 17″ by Eden Maxwell
The Country of Women (1995): CALYX Books “Sandra Kohler’s poems find art in the mundane, the sacred, and the profane. Examining woman’s experience as sexual being, as mother, and as artist, Kohler reveals what it means to live in a woman’s body.” -from the cover
Why a Woman Can’t Be Pope
Section V of “The Country of Women”
The Country of Women
Everyone knows that under her robes,
there would be breasts,
the nipples brown raspberries,
a sloping mound, furred,
the cleft in the fur, where
a tongue fits, furled layers,
lips, between them the tunnel
into the last world.
Wow! Absorbing Eden’s art and Sandra’s poetry, I find my self asking the question, Who needs a Pope? Art is a religion of its own.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Hal