Poems

GangRape

Your rage, indeed. You raped out your rage
on my Aunt Marie
and left her in a catatonic dread
until she died
three months later.

You say in passing that you sometimes thought
about her feelings
while your brothers spent their rage
on my Aunt Marie
and the others.

I want to make my hand into a fist
and fuck it past your tongue
down through your lungs, your belly, and your bowels
into some place
where you still feel.
I want to trespass against you
as you trespassed against her.

I will believe in absolution when
I see your eyes
as pale pools of horror at her hell;
when for atonement
you bear witness:

sack-clothed and ashen, clutch at all who pass
to tell the story
of you and her and history and rage.
How long must you go on?
Perhaps Marie can tell you.

I do not know who will tell me.

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About Katherine Power

I didn’t set out to be a terrorist. As a student activist, I moved from protesting the war in Viet Nam to waging guerrilla war to overthrow the government….

Recent and Upcoming Appearances & Publications
3/12/19 Peace, Justice and Transformation, Parallel Conference to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 777 United Nations Plaza, NYC
11/13/18 A Journey from Guerrilla to Grandmother, Lifelong Learners: An Independent Collaborative, Temple Shir Tikva, 141 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA 01778
10/10/18 Provincetown Women’s Week Reading from Doing Time:Papers from Framingham Prison, AMP, 432 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
4/6-9/2018 The Nature of Change, Radical Imagination Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1/15/2014 Complexity and Social Change, Occupy Radio
10/31/2013 Surrender, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
10/25/2013 Surrender, Taos Community Theater, Taos, NM

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