Monthly Archives: March 2020

Celebrating Women Poets Following International Woman’s Day – Two Poems by Samantha Fain and One by Me

March 12, 2020 – 4:13 pm

Woman as Wet Collection He tells me, this is science. These are facts. Your body bakes the bread. Your knees bond to the floorboards. Scrub. Whisper. Speak white noise but don’t sleep. Warm my shadow. Keep your knuckles beneath the table or in the dough. Don’t ask me to repeat myself, don’t question my tongue […]

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A Few Days Late – A Heck of a Poem (And One Other!) to Celebrate International Woman’s Day!!! Or to Celebrate Women on Any Darn Day!!!Please Say Hello to American Poet Bianca Spriggs!

March 10, 2020 – 7:31 pm

What Women Are Made Of There are many kinds of open. — Audre Lorde We are all ventricle, spine, lung, larynx, and gut. Clavicle and nape, what lies forked in an open palm; we are follicle and temple. We are ankle, arch, sole. Pore and rib, pelvis and root and tongue. We are wishbone and gland […]

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Gone for a Year, Today – Dear Patrick, Poet and Friend, Bless You. And Thanks for Your Great Kid’s Book Poem! It Cheers Me Up!

March 7, 2020 – 6:12 pm

An excerpt from Milford and Me – An Illustrated Kid’s Book (Milford in this poem/book is a small turtle) We walk along down by the turnips. There is no one but Milford and me. We’ve been sharing a cucumber sandwich is the shade of a very tall pea. There are things I don’t know about, […]

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A Poem – My Response to the News of the Sexual and Relationship Abuse of Women by the Once-Celebrated Canadian Jean Vanier

March 2, 2020 – 12:39 pm

This Impossible Math – The Grace and Rightness You Were Minus the Wrong You Were, Equals, What? I grieve to speak of love and yet not love as I should. I ask forgiveness of the many I have wounded And of the many I have passed without seeing their wounds. Pray for me, my brother […]

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