How round your name is, Miriam, mira your tulip, calla, daisy, comfrey crown, your knobby peach pulsing light like Hera, its surfeit a challenge to all the known nouns, the globe of its strange normalcy, the sound of roundness, of gladness and how I crave things round And black, like this starless wakefulness, this distant … Continue reading My mother’s secret garden – Judy Swann
A word about kind. The OED says only, and misleadingly, “cunt- ; see cont-, count- But in her Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983, that’s why she can’t cite Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, 1989), Barbara G. Walker, the knitting expert and Neolithic scholar, writes “Cunt Derivative of the Oriental Great Goddess as … Continue reading When God Was a Woman II – Judy Swann
I looked my visitor full in the face. I recognized her now; she was my nurse when I was little, my mother, Earth. “Why have you come now?” I asked, “Now that I’m in prison.” “I could never abandon you,” she said, “although it has been hard trying to get your attention. Invested people have … Continue reading When God Was a Woman – Judy Swann
How round your name is, Miriam, mira your tulip, calla, daisy, comfrey crown, your knobby peach pulsing light like Hera, its surfeit a challenge to all the known nouns, the globe of its strange normalcy, the sound of roundness, of gladness and how I crave things round And black, like this starless wakefulness, this distant … Continue reading Featured Post: My mother’s secret garden – Judy Swann
A word about kind. The OED says only, and misleadingly, “cunt- ; see cont-, count- But in her Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983, that’s why she can’t cite Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, 1989), Barbara G. Walker, the knitting expert and Neolithic scholar, writes “Cunt Derivative of the Oriental Great Goddess as … Continue reading When God Was a Woman II – Judy Swann
I looked my visitor full in the face. I recognized her now; she was my nurse when I was little, my mother, Earth. “Why have you come now?” I asked, “Now that I’m in prison.” “I could never abandon you,” she said, “although it has been hard trying to get your attention. Invested people have … Continue reading When God Was a Woman – Judy Swann
Brave & Reckless 