I'm in the mood for

Lucille Clifton. 

listen,
you a wonder.
you a city
of a woman.
you got a geography
of your own.
listen,
somebody need a map
to understand you.
somebody need directions
to move around you.
listen,
woman,
you not a noplace
anonymous
girl;
mister with his hands on you
he got his hands on
some
damn
body! 

Thank you, Lori, for sending me this poem! Lori Brozek and Jeneva Burroughs Stone and I had the best conversation the other day about what it means to be a middle-aged woman. We talked about bodies and sex and things both licit and illict. We talked about inhabiting fully our own. All three of us are writers, and all three of us are mothers of young adults with disabilities. Both Lori and Jeneva, as well as my friends Erika and Alicia, work on and put out a beautiful literary journal called Pentimento. You should check it out sometime. Buy a subscription. Support them and people with disabilities and artists with disabilities. Here's the link: 

Pentimento