Mino-Ghigua Prunck flutters and flaps as to rise above a deep hurt of this moment and past.

Squirming and rhythmically she detaches. Unapologetic for expecting things to be different right now

she grows a hundred wings made of the feathers of the collective voices. A healing power, enough to lift off.

she will fly

The Dahomey Mino were an all-female warrior battalion in West Africa and Ghigua, a TSA-La_Gi term to describe female warriors and political tribal leaders