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 is guest-editing Arc 102: Disability Desirability, which will be released in the fall. We are still accepting poetry submissions for this issue.
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]