Women’s Space

I started a new tradition for my youngest two kids, who are 10 and 13 (Jeyoani, too, and whatever other of my kids happens to be at my  house :)).  The night before I go back to work after the holidays, we will continue each year to do three things that we did for the first time [...]

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don’t make so much
noise dear
the nurses say to the woman
three days in labor
white scum on her lips
outside the streets are hot
and flat and infinite
and time is only marked
by the dilation of pain
you’re acting like a little girl
the doctor tells her
you don’t hurt
hips like a cow
you were born to bear
his own stomach
is pegged across his thighs
like [...]

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At the centre of the earth there is a mother.
If any of us who are her children choose to die
she feels a grief like a wound deeper
than any of us can imagine.
She puts her hands to her face
like this:
her two palms open on her cheeks
Put them there like she does
Her fingers cover her eyes
She presses [...]

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The whole weight of history bears down
on the awful mother’s shoulders
Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Inquisition
each massacre of innocents
her own childhood
and the childhood of her mother
and the childhood of her child.
What can she do?
She remembers.
The child’s drawing, the lost
mittens, the child
cold, the awful mother shouting
the child’s story of shadows
in her room, the child waiting
the awful mother
waiting, [...]

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Talkers in a dream doorway
by Judy Grahn
You leaned your body in the doorway
(it was a dim NY hall)
I was leaving as usual — on my way.
You had your head cocked to the side
in your most intelligent manner
eyes glistening with provocation,
gaze direct as always,
and more, as though wanting something,
as though I could have bent and kissed [...]

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The barn looks so tidy covered with snow!

Rasberry bushes in winter

The bridge across the creek

Deer tracks

Why I park up at the top

My beloved sheep, or some of them

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Me, Heart, with Sol and Mags, my youngest
We’ve had record low temperatures for the past week and lots and lots of snow. It’s so beautiful.
Today is [...]

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Go here.
“In the streets or the ‘after,’ in the churches or in memory,
The light that will guide you is the source of the flame
While stumbling the back alleys in search of right action
I fell and wept darkly and acknowledged your name
And the door to my prison dissolved right before me
But like a young fool I [...]

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Above is a video interview of Shekinah Mountainwater, a beautiful, wonderful woman. She was interviewed July 9, 2007, and died a little over a month later, on August 12, 2007, of breast cancer. I’m reading her book Ariadne’s Thread at the moment and am enjoying it so, so much. Like so many [...]

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These photos and this post are for and dedicated to my children, my grandchildren, my ex-husband of 19 years, my late first husband, to Mother Dear and Aunt Pat of New Orleans, Ninth Ward, when they were alive, to Aunt Sophie and Uncle Charlie of Baltimore, Maryland, when they were alive, to all of our scattered [...]