Don Giovanni
By Olivia Clare
Women asleep. Carlight,
east red and west white.
Women, and men made of them,
and lambs in their droves, and power lines east
to the women-made men and women of men,
when a man is a sum
of what women he knows, and I
blurred my vision till I
saw a woman and lambs in the streets,
west red and white east,
and I wanted to eat. Women and men,
don’t fear me, I am
a hand come to wake her. Red
in the west says
woman is man is woman is man.
Source: Poetry (November 2011)