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The Clitorisis 9 cm deep
in the pelvis. Most of it scrunched & hidden. New studies show the shy curl to be longer than the penis, but like Africa, the continent, it is never drawn to size. Mapmakers, and others, who draw important things for a living, do not want us to know this. In some females, the clitoris stretches, unfurls, 8 in, with 2 to 3.5 in, shaft free, outside the body. The longest clitoris of record has been found in the blue whale. In water desire can rise, honor sea levels, ignore land-locked cartographers. In water, desire refuses retreat. Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice; The World Is Round; and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, is forthcoming in 2020 from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. https://nikkyfinney.net
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