hysterectomied woman,
be here for the first time
in your body, a free thought,
unscarred and scented
peels of stemmed fruit
your soft and searing halo
inside, near the belly button
spaciousness, not of doom
but of fields, a pond of
fluorescent
moonlight in
ecstasy of your
renewal
Bios
Therese Estacion was the Guest Editor of Arc 102: Disability Desirability.
Therese Estacion
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine. Her first book, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug, and is a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Awards. She lives in Toronto/Tkaronto. [provided for the Disability Desirability call]