Modern Birth of Venus
BIO
Bri Borrego is an essayist and poet from El Paso, Texas. She writes for both creative and technical audiences and her work has been featured in Wacoan Magazine, Art Avenue, and Solutions and Dividends Magazine. She can be found on Instagram @words.bybri or on her website briannaborrego10.wixsite.com/website.
shutter the vessel of a shell
gather her waves
of lucious red curls
and sing a lullaby
to
drift her away
back
into the sea.
end this emerging
birth of what would be
a suffocating symbol
an entire planet
a quintessential gravitational force
for her birth stems
existence of the
tangible feminine divine,
a woman who does not bleed
a pearl washed up to shore
awaiting to lose its luster
by human touch.
let her be swallowed by the salt.
this is a birth we do not want
it’s an introduction women have
no argument in.
the beginning of centuries of
confinement cruelty
deprecation deprivation
a goddess birthed in chains
covering her nudity
her powers exchanged
for an intransigent biography,
an academic of which is not her own.
so let her rest in heavenly tide,
send her away with requiescence
let venus be confined
by her shell of ivory chiffon,
not by the disposition of
first zephyr
then all of man.