Woman Palaver
Idle men
look at
three young girls
just from “bush school.”
Trained basket weavers
fisherwomen
farmers
homemakers.
Breasts
full avocados, papayas
are painted
with white chalk.
Idle men
look at
three young
brides-to-be.
Idle men
can only look.
They own
Neither a cow
Nor fifty dollars.
*Bush school-non Western school
in the forest where girls are taken at puberty for six months to two years to
be trained by female elders to be future independent wives.
© Althea Romeo-Mark
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