Naomi Helena Quiñonez




Passages

There are passages
of history 
written by women
with pens
and paint 
with scars
and blood
and beating hearts

Wolf Mother Locas
who bay at the moon
to receive the warrior’s light

Medicine Mamas
ready with remedies
for bodies
and minds
and souls

A blood sunrise
is tattooed
on their hearts
there is thunder 
in their voices
and lightning
in their veins

Feet march
fists rise
ideas radiate

Divine Feminine
awakened    
ignites action
engenders genius
forges the infinite
collaborations
of culture 
community
and survival

There are sisters 
who bear burdens
and beauty
who birth
children and ideas
Wounded warriors
who seek to heal
and yearn
to restore 
planetary balance 
and to be in
alignment
with earth
with moon
with sun
with self
with each other

Time slows
eyes close
palms meet
thoughts surrender
to the eternity of breath   
that merges
with the divine 

La Diosa
is in the house!

Quan Yin
Coyolxauqui and Oba
dance to Oshun’s
river tempos
Shiva spins oldies
and Kali falls
into the salty arms 
of  Yema Ya 
on a delicious 
full moon night

The goddess is present
in the words
of Rigoberta Menchu
in the passion
of Lolita Lebron
in the love
of Audre Lorde!

La Diosa
is well and kicking
and ready
to inhabit hearts
expand minds 
lift spirits
renew societies

Receive the maguey plant 
offering
the gift
of golden corn
Drink the rising water
and calm the shaking earth

Write the passages
she longs for
with your joy
and with your tears
Satisfy your soul
stand in the power
that is woman
and be the evolution!