VALENTINES DAY ‘EQUAL LOVE’ PROJECT

A collaboration with LOWE Bangalore. Produced by Twism Productions.
Artistic collaboration and partnership with Radha Rathi (Styling and Co-creatrive Direction)
Couples: Vaibhav and Suki, Shivaji and Chandra, Anikita and Sam, Kiran and Elen.
Shot in Bangalore.  

Love Poem to a Butch Woman

BY DEBORAH A. MIRANDA


This is how it is with me:
so strong, I want to draw the egg
from your womb and nourish it in my own.
I want to mother your child made only
of us, of me, you: no borrowed seed
from any man. I want to re-fashion
the matrix of creation, make a human being
from the human love that passes between
our bodies. Sweetheart, this is how it is:
when you emerge from the bedroom
in a clean cotton shirt, sleeves pushed back
over forearms, scented with cologne
from an amber bottle—I want to open
my heart, the brightest aching slit
of my soul, receive your pearl.
I watch your hands, wait for the sign
that means you’ll touch me,
open me, fill me; wait for that moment
when your desire leaps inside me.