De Kooning’s Woman With a Bicycle
She is the tittering click of heels and gossip. Unstable as a bauble’s swing. Her soft perfumed sway unsettling the senses. . She is full of chartreuse sentiments, bringing in the evening mail with full coverage. Slyer than a nettle’s sting, she knows the art of a prying glance, the way a woman has with news rife with innuendoes. She is the slap of recognition, the smart red conversational twist, engorged with spite. She is sex self-dilated, dominating an entire landscape, legs askew for anyone’s delight. Her breasts are all the soft machinery of motherhood gone to waste. Her mind, a boxed heirloom awaiting use, its meaning rattled into place. Her eyes, the colours of tumbled quartz --milky, prone to tears. Her mouth is freshly shredded with the hard gleam of ivories loosely strung She is a woman made and then made undone. M. L. Lyons M. L. Lyons co-edited Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015). Lyons collaborated with Miye Bishop on a poem based dance as part of Bellingham Dance Repertory's Phrasings in Word + Dance Festival. Her poetry and fiction has been widely published and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she was a recipient of a Hedgebrook Vortext scholarship.
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June 2025
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