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Woman invisibility: Ann-Eva Bergman, Glinda the Good Witch, ruby slippers, Gretchen’s Faust, Emmy Klinker and the fate of woman painters, etc., etc.
Marianne von Werefkin, Herbst (Schule), “Autumn (School)”, 1907. Photo Courtesy Wikipedia It’s Glinda, Good Witch of the West, who says the solution to a problem is as simple as closing your eyes and clicking together your personal pair of ruby slippers. I took Glynda at her word almost every day of my army career, hoping…
Skeptical | Izzy Noon
I want to trust but how do you? How do you sail past the island of doubt, how do you jump again when your ankles are still sore from previous attempts? I apologize that this poem is made up of questions, but so am I sometimes. The post Skeptical | Izzy Noon appeared first on…
Lost an Ocean | JD DeHart
Oh, dear. It seems I have lost an ocean. While coloring. There is an entire expanse here I have rendered in a rustic green and burning orange-brown. I believe there is a body of water there. But what is it? My lack of traveling feet has led me to create a super-continent today. More at…
Betrayal | Stan Morrison
I’m no good reading between the lines I get stuck at decoding the obvious I believed all those lies you told me so who is really the fool after all I know that by tomorrow I’ll be fine and you’ll still have your sad life saga you’ve broken our rental agreement love’s only a lease,…
Face to Face | Stan Morrison
in the mirror face to face I see this young man old laughing together with one another “how absurd, you’re so old so young” not like an ancient city built layer atop of layer but a continuous construct of the new, the humorous thew humane the divine forever renewing refreshing relentless time at our backs…
Killing Poverty | Ananya S. Guha
Regardless of caring, not caring, the man carrying a burden on his back, is what I turn away from, to hide my face or my shame or recognize the fact that ours is a country, where self destroys, forgetting not itself, but others who share burden of killing, mitigating that one bit. Killing poverty. The…