Friday, October 6, 2017

Women liberated


Every woman becomes Medusa,
and learns how to become grotesque 
and malign with the glaring intention
to harm every fellow femme or fowl.

All the manly men demanding 
subservience, much more gratitude 
and adoration for being a Hero to 
Humanity.

Mind the Gap, they kindly warn us
of the space wedged between
World and Human-as if we could easily 
misstep
or fall in.

When an atom was split, 
when the uneaten apples fell,
we made matters worse
by being casual observers.

When women went to work,
when women drove-
when they chose-
the family would decay.

The women wanted,
the men desired,
the pairs all 
spun
out. 

"Translation is the art of failure"
Umberto Eco famously noted.


"Metaphor is ritual sacrifice, it kills the look-a-like" 
suggested  Rae Armantrout.

Between two 
worlds

the Space 
keeps us Safe




Painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 'Women of Amphissa' c. 1887 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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