IF HE, IF SHE WOULD ONLY

“Divorce Journals,” image by Martha Donovan
…a man is terribly hampered and partial in his knowledge of women, as a woman in her knowledge of men.
…Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were “Chloe liked Olivia…” Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
—Virginia Woolf
I had envisioned love a place I could map.
—Rita Anderson
All this gold and we couldn’t
find it.
—Meghan Giles
From behind he cannot see
feathers sprouted on her brow.
—Sandy Gillespie