Sleepless Girl
The Bondless
Grown in synthetic wombs
The bondless humans
“Gestate” rapidly
Touted as the final advancement
For women, freed from their
Placentic shackles
In truth, the final usurpation
Of womankind’s power
By mankind
The Bondless have no mother
An abomination, a shameful act
Of inhumanity by humanity
Lacking the ability to love
Never knowing love during “life”
They labor till death
My Damp Pillow
Chime Lama (འཆི་མེད་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།) is a Tibetan American writer, translator and multi-genre artist based in New York. She holds an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. She serves as the Poetry Editor of Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities. Her work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, Exposition Review, The Margins, Street Cake, Volume Poetry and Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução, n. 24 (Notebooks of Literature in Translation), among others. Her poetry collection, Sphinxlike, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She teaches Creative Writing at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
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