I’m making a gang of women writers our colors
will be earth brown and green our
turf
the world the planet the word the written
written spoken word
we will battle in tongues of fire
words like a
shrieking cum
like northern lights
like southern southern slick southern fruit
fruta bomba, te digo, fruta bomba.

I’m making a gang of women writers - mangos
and serendipity will be our weapons
write to live, live to be free will be our grafitti streaked creed.
FIERCE WORDS TENDER will be our name
don’t mess with us
FIERCE WORDS TENDER
can’t touch this
FIERCE WORDS TENDER
pens a-ready we will
blaze.