Hijra Mother Breast Feeds

Hijra Mother Breast Feeds, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

hijra mother breast feeds
to the surrogate childs
motherly needs
missing milk
to misplaced motherhood
copiously concedes
a missing womb
only pain and more
pain breeds
a hijra in widows weeds
cautiously as she proceeds
scattered sorrow of prayer beads
on the soul of hijra as it bleeds
oh father who art in heaven
to an androgynous god she pleads
malfunctioning words rushing like
an unruly unforgiving poetry stream

to john williamson
in a garden of flourishing words
planting new seeds