Bo-Arts // Woman of the Year (Part 4)
Bo-Arts is a bi-weekly art/literature initiative. Twice a month, Boshemia will share creative writing and visual art submissions from our readers and folks who identify as feminist to give a larger audience to emerging creatives. Our goal is to provide a platform for feminist artists to share and discuss their work. This issue of Bo-Arts, Woman of the Year: Part 4, is the fourth installment of the poem-and-photography collaborations brought to you by a duo from Frederick, Maryland, USA. Anna See-Jachowski is a poet and feminist thrilled to be working with Boshemia. Anna, her partner Matt, and their four cats live in Frederick. Emily Jessee is a young feminist creative who uses platforms like photography to portray the harshness and vulnerability of the world around her.
About the Series
"These poems are part of a series I plan to self-publish this year, titled Woman of the Year. Each poem represents a period in a young artist’s life in which they find love, a muse, and desperately seek the meaning of that experience. The five poems are a taste of what the series will offer, and explore the deadly combination of desperation and anger felt when a lover leaves; the lovely vulnerability of falling asleep around people you love; the ritual of hedonism in summertime; and finally, the artist’s banishment of her muse for the sake of her own recovery from trauma." - from Anna
we are myth.
three witches
am i.
three frauen,
a single journey
that put you right
*
back where you started
without a dutiful
penelope
waiting.
*
only a goddess
times three
could keep you
from a lost
house,
that’s far from
home.
*
don’t you see,
my little warrior,
you forgetful general?
that i (we) three
cannot let you go back there
in good conscience
(in good standing).
*
it was never written-
*
you were sullied,
you were kept-
*
you were almost convinced that
you’d made
a perfect landing.
oh admiral,
you were always a
traveler,
a decimal of
eternal thirst in a
cup of salty water.
*
drink
us
down
now,
only in a dream.