Something is askew. We’re back to imprisonment myths sequestering women who think or act as if they had the right to.
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Posted in Protest, Roe v Wade, Women on May 6, 2022 | 4 Comments »
The Felling of the Bard of Weeds
Posted in Natural World, Poetry, Protest on June 25, 2018 | 1 Comment »
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. -Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid (1881)
Making Way for the Poem
Posted in Anger, Poetry, Protest, Women, Writing on January 14, 2018 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been waiting for anger to subside or at least squidgy a little to the left or, if not that, slide a bit lower or melt, maybe, from my furrowed brow and clenched jaw or warm the nippy fluids buffering my heart by just half a degree or soften just the tiniest bit the hardened […]
Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
You ask me to walk in silence
Posted in Community, Protest, Women on January 22, 2017 | 2 Comments »
On the occasion of the Seattle Womxn’s March Jan 21, 2017 You ask me to walk in silence hold my tongue wait just a little longer and still a little longer maybe four years.