“hoes said they wish a bitch would, & I’m a genie” -Megan Thee Stallion
ain’t got much ass but I’ma grip it
make him catch it with his hips
two of us ridin’ to the music I puppet
through my dips real hot girl shit
liquored & liking the magic I cast
when I throw it back fat & nasty
bought a floor length mirror just to catch myself
in its glances this heft this happiness
Megan you mother an era of girls
taught them to be savage
& scholar to admire their long pink
tongues—loud girls large girls
you knew before it happened
that men stay tryna make us dance
but we twerkin’ for our damn selves
musty bullet-proof unrepentantly hot
Diamond Forde is the author of Mother Body, with Saturnalia Books. She is a Callalloo and Tin House Fellow whose work has appeared in Obsidian, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and more. She currently lives in Asheville, NC with her partner and their dog.
Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s National Poetry Month project: Sing the Body: A Collection of Poems Praising Our Selves!
With support from Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) and Florida International University’s Center for Women and Gender Studies, we are publishing poems that celebrate body positivity and our selves.
In addition to publishing the poems as poems of the day, 10 select Sing the Body poems will be displayed on FIU’s main campus near mirrors and places where women encounter themselves. These poems will live in a dedicated portfolio on our website.
Thank you, as always, for reading and supporting SWWIM Every Day! Happy National Poetry Month!
