The Supreme Abortion
By Lavinia Kumar
No one
Confessed or squealed
The babe was dripped, not leaked.
Did the French letter have a hole?
Don’t tell.
In Court,
No leak of Roe –
No trust in settled law.
Was the IUD aborted?
Don’t tell.
The pill’s
Bitter poison
Sure to gag young women.
The law’s cold still-birth not controlled?
Don’t tell.
Lavinia Kumar’s latest book is Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists –very short prose biographies of near 90 amazing women (mostly pre-Civil War) writers, poets, publishers, painters, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists. She has also published 3 poetry books and 4 chapbooks. Her website is laviniakumar.net.
