A room of her own
a room that alienates her
by being limited to female voices
the room that pulls her towards meanwhile
a space where she has found him
and where she has lost him
a place where she plans to die
well it’s a three-bed location
a way to fit five pomerganate seeds
in one bedroom
her mom granny elder and younger sisters her
every time she gets into this room
her trigger finger just starts bleeding
she takes her thumb and softly rubs it
as long as all pain is erased there is
no traces left to witness the harm of her hands
that’s how a she flows
when she moves to a two-story bed
closed by a white wall on her right
and planks of wood above
she sucks up water smells
in the cavities of her body
how sickening dying is
to being born again
in the room she has always had
in the room of her own

Oksana Lebedivna
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