‘shattered vagina’
Come to california
True jesus land
The streets ways and boulevards
Are engraved in mirror
So that everyone can see up our skirts
So that everyone can see up our shattered vaginas
Between our pink and holy shopping bags
In between our missions and deserts
Where the crusade met the crucifixion
Where hollywood is the graveyard of Mary
And the sacramento river the miracle wine
Or the mother’s tears or the flat diet coke
Because modernity requires sand for glass
To prevent the second coming or the sphinx’ cumming
Because jesus got a gold star
From Glower to La Brea
From Sunset to Yucca
And the preview at the sun red cinema spells out:
Legacy is Paramount
Rachel Nichols is from Sacramento, California—main inspirations being Rilke, Eliot, Plath, Ferlinghetti, and Ginsberg. Interested in the body and/as the desert and religion, specifically Catholicism.