Two Women: https://vimeo.com/340243804/230a094b5b

juanita mohammed: My granddaughter, Pharah, and I chose to read our poetry to each other. That was easy. The hard part was deciding which poem to include because we each wrote five! For me, “She Had a Hard Week” and “The Incredible Older Woman” had to be included. The former because I have experienced domestic violence in the window of others’ lives. I have seen and heard women friends express how the men in their lives have berated them behind closed doors and in front of others, how they have put their hands on them, how they have felt the pain of losing a loved one to the violence. Why would a person “love you so much” that they would kill you rather than let you go? “The Incredible Older Woman” was written because the reality of being a senior finally hit me. To see and feel the pain,...