Amy Lee
Seahorses
everyone assured you how you will feel better
after the water breaks.
but no one told you about
the third-degree tearing,
the brain fogs,
the Mummy’s wrist
which prevented you
from holding your own baby.
now, you wished you were a
female seahorse instead
– for male seahorses give birth.
Amy Lee is a lawyer based in Seattle. She holds a BA (Govt)/LLB, UQ, a LLM from The University of Melbourne. She is the Managing Editor of Quail Bell Magazine, a NYC based progressive feminist digital platform. Her work has been published in Canada, UK, Australia, Taiwan and USA. She fights against racism and sexism & recently co-founded the Go Fund Me project which saved Bruce Lee’s Warrior TV Series for S3.