my issue with what they consider beautiful
is their concept of beauty
centers around
excluding
people
i find hair beautiful
when
a
woman
wears
it
like a garden
on her
skin
that
is
the
definition
of
beauty
big hooked noses
pointing
upward
to
the
sky
like
they're
rising
to the
occasion
skin
the color
of earth
my ancestors planted crops on
to feed a lineage of women with
thighs thick as tree trunks
eyes like almonds
deeply hooded with conviction
the
rivers
of
punjab
flow
through
my
bloodstream
so
don't tell me my women
aren't as beautiful
as the ones in
your country