i am
womyn/split into quarters/one tongue cut/loving self in halves
.
hello.
have we met?
i am
wahine/my ea mud rooted /trace me in pō/fragments of moana scattered
.
aloha.
have you seen me?
i am
onna/a silent noh-daiko/Nihon buyo does not move here/ai is a foreign cage
.
kon'nichiwa
have you remembered me?
i am
mulher/um barco em uma cova/lábios touching air/are these bones not dead yet?
.
olá
have you noticed me?
i am
nǚrén/my skin is Nǎinai de gǔhuī/Wǒ de xīnzàng shǔ huǒ/laugh at this subtle breath
.
wait
have i forgotten me?/
am i forgetting me?/
have i not met my own diaspora?/
am i not noticing my own river?/
is my river dried?am i just a ship in a grave? is my heart just a flicker of a flame? if i drink my ancestor's ashes will my skin remember them?
have/ we/ met/
yet?