“Women have more to lose” by Aileen Dosev
Photograph from Freepik.
Women have more to lose
like lipsticks and virginity,
and handbags and last
names and fetuses.
My mother lost her earring
at the airport. She mourned it
like a dove. A matching set,
she weeped. With my necklace
and my ring
and every thing.
Aileen Dosev is a published writer, LSWA A&L Journal Editor, and a student at the Ross School of Business. She wrote this short poem in light of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, exploring how loss and womanhood so often intertwine. At what point do the two become synonymous?
