Stalking by Deborah Hunter

Deborah Hunter

Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based multi-disciplinary poet and spoken word artist whose work has been commissioned for publication and performance. She received a 2020 Greenwood Art Project grant for her original play, Porches, a 2018 Women of the Year Pinnacle Award, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist.

Stalking

I stalked the man who raped my daughter.

I stalked him in my dreams after I

Made her tell me what he looked like

Pinned her down again

I stalked him because I felt

Responsible

For creating a girl child in a world

That breeds men

Like him.