My foremothers
Burned.
But before, they brewed
A bubbletoilingtrouble
In me.
A cauldron of calcitrated boils
Venom
Vitriol
And the heart of men's abuse—
Blackest bauble—
In me.
My foremothers burned
And burn still
In me.
And to fight fire with fire I’d turn myself inside out.