Ana Mendieta hand-painted a body-
shaped doorway on white brick
There is A Devil Inside Me
one devil inside the larger
ME the blood-filled body
can hold at least one demon 
after the surgery my excess blood 
filled my pockets’ coin purses
when drunk the blood changes color
because I have decided against
children my blood drops
in brown clumps like soil
the blood that rivered
from my sliced-open breasts 
was a salmon run and down 
the tubes little pieces of tissue swam
on another wall Mendieta painted 
in bright red chicken blood 
SHE GOT LOVE
love the great rectifier
bell hooks called love
the antidote to the politics of domination
at night I make art
about my breasts I close myself
in a mountain barn 
this is how I love me
back home my small doctor 
Evelina her hand 
inside me calls my uterus juvenile 
as if when the first man 
touched me it quit 
on the eclipse I burn 
a piece of paper I’m supposed 
to be burning what no longer 
serves me but instead I write love, more