Today’s poem, inspired by an interview with Elizabeth Comen.
Warning, uses anatomic terms.

Pudenda (definition): External genitalia, especially female Pudendum/Pudenda (etymology): Thing(s) to be ashamed of (from Latin)

Pudenda reveals an agenda
Pudendum Femininum
The female shame part
Shame part
Part to be ashamed of
Woman, that which is unlike man
Atypical, other, inferior

Woman is man deformed
So said Aristotle, who postulated a world of opposites
Woman, curving, dark, secret, unstable, secret, dark,
Curved, leaky, unbounded
Man, straight, light, open, stable, self-contained, firmly bounded

Man the norm, woman only the appendage
From a rib formed, forbidden fruit eater
Temptress, seductress, bringer of evil

Non pudendum I declare
No longer schamlippen
I honor all that makes me she and
Glory in all my bits and parts

No longer afraid to say
Vagina
Labia
Mons
Pubis
Clitoris

No longer afraid to experience pleasure
Openly, joyfully, loudly
I am woman, watch me soar