We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough

Author:Joy McCullough [McCullough, Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

I cannot stay here

with my softest parts

exposed.

Even the modest garments

provided by women

betrothed to Christ

cannot contain

cannot keep out

the ugliness.

I require

armor.

If someone else

should slay the monsters

it will be in the name

of land and power and wealth

not Marguerite de Bressieux.

Not in the name of Helene

or Zahra, Emilde, Betsy.

They must know our names.

At breakfast

I tell the women

who have given their lives

in servitude to my family

they are free to return

to their homes.

This pronouncement

is met with fear, tears.

They have nowhere to go.

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