This piece is featured in Issue No. 17 DYKE II - She's Back

Poetry

Molotov

Kissing women is wisdom, be romantic, effervescent, and boozy, to rile up the constitution.
Be who you are everywhere.
Dykes, kiss your lovers on the streets - your love is revolution.
Don’t let them treat us better only when our placement is below the pavement.

There’s prohibition
on pages where girls find themselves,
on documents where we identify,
on who can wear a sports team's helms.

The losses we identify:
To speak easy of our solution.
Defiance - the liquor of our lives.
Resilience - unwavering confidence, an absolution.
Anger the masses when they ban where we thrive.

Molotov is the cocktail brewed
When women find pleasure in the absence of men.
Let the glass shatter in their eyes.
Who wants to kiss tonight?

Mary Poirier

Mary Poirier [she/they] is a writer and a poet from Hamilton, Ontario. Their writing is inspired by their interactions as a hard-of-hearing, lesbian, and Filipino artist. Her poetry has been published in Feels Zine, Queer Toronto Literary Magazine, and Fifth Wheel Press.