Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

By the force of my doom

...not as a wife to bear it in humility..."

By the force of my doom

By the force of my doom
The outcast

The blood of disgrace
Is in menstruation.

And not upon
(A foreign)foreskin
In humility

And not as
A wife to bear it
In humility

For this
I give

No guarantee.





Article © Tali Cohen Shabtai. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 1, 2021 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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1 Reader Comment
Gorge
03/18/2021
10:21:04 AM
I love the poetry of Tali Cohen Shabtai. I do not think there is a better creator than her to protest like in this poem.
Great and powerful!
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