🌕 The Circle Woman
Circle woman
not the first
spun from a pattern passed down in blood,
Each round a wound retold
In hush and heat.
Circle woman
looped the same lanes
again / again
thinking it forward,
finding it fixed.
The path curved back
no matter the pace.
Circle woman
mother. Sister. Carer.
First to know,
first to fix,
first to fall quiet.
Called on, counted out,
always the answer
never the question.
Circle woman
curates collapse
boss by morning,
breakdown by night,
All of it lit for the grid.
Smile. Spin. Succeed. Repeat.
This is the new good girl.
The circle woman
stepped again
into a softer circle.
One woven with breath,
with bones that listened.
Where turning meant tending,
and rhythm was shared.
Not a fairground spin,
but a firelit round.
Each hand held,
not held down.
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From "always the answer never the question" onward I am lost in the crescendo of the words - a crescendo of truth and wisdom.