
Free verse of a woman
Canto de Espada
Song of the Sword
Her stance shifts to wield and pique as her thought slits the challenge to still.
Lengths and tendrils flare like strands of the Andes to siege and parry in a whirl of taunt.
Shoulders are one with her voice in a stop-motion slice to counter rebuke
where episiotomy in curve circumcises the rote in tone with birth outspoken… horizon gleams with song.
Dionne Charlet is a former Renaissance and Medieval festival queen. Her poetry appears in print in the anthologies New Orleans by Gaslight [Black, 2013] and Cairo by Gaslight, [Black, 2015] under pseudonym Dionne Cherie, and Louisiana Inklings: A Literary Sampler [Gramlich, 2013].
Her poetry has won awards on Scriggler.com, and has been curated on Medium and published in ILLUMINATION, The Rebel Poets Society, The POM, Publishing Well, Ladowich Magazine, thewrytr, and The Lark.
