it is Wear Red Day
locally
it is a “Heart” day
I am told
(with all the viewers)
wear red
remember
who’s researching
how to live with
all the troubles
that might happen
to this muscle
also
standing
(symbolizing)
for so much
National Wear Red Day
especially for women
who tend to go unidentified
as victims
of heart trouble
the day
this day
is also the centennial
of the American Heart Association
so much research
so much funding
for research
and also teaching
learning how often
this might happen to women
inside women
(yes
inside men
and don’t I know)
but the symptoms
can go differently
so differently
and she
and those for she
should know
identify
and react so fast
when these might happen
to her
red day
we are red
today
and red means oxygen
which all bodies
should take in
to nourish all our parts
with freedom
though when impeded
we need
red help
the symbol
raising money
and awareness
and our hopes
starting here
with her
with him
then to the world
with all the hearts
heart-lives
out there
out here
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(and, yes, it’s been the time for Imbolc and Candlemas and Saint Brigid and the groundhog did not see his (Phil’s) shadow—and these mean more than we may know for how we observe and take part in our seasons and also all our days
but women suffer from not only heart disease but from lack of awareness of symptoms and then what to do
while heart disease kills all of us more than any other reason such as cancer or crime)
photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
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women’s Bible study
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I should mention the women
Eve
Rebecca
Rachel
Sarah
Miriam
Jezebel
Ruth
Esther
Judith
(whom for strength
perhaps
the Protestants
excoriate)
Susanna
Mary
Elizabeth
the woman at table
the woman at the well
(without a name)
the woman in adultery
(without the man)
Mary
Martha
Mary
Mary
Sapporah
Priscilla
the women in
the final revelation
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they shouldn’t have to be a block
a ledger of names
and credits after
though we treat the men the same
and maybe God
matters of categories
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and are these women metaphors
yes
in addition to blood-and-muscled lives
one by one
to save the rest
and
sacred
and secular
bring salvation
into light
and also night
all the hours
all the real stories
toward eternity
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Photo by Prince Akachi on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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3 poems of encounters
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Love, NOAA
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Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harold
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The writer on
The wuthering heights
The character from PBS
Maybe the nickname
For Ms Stein
And I heard one forecaster
At least
Call it Harry
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Our alphabet
Our panoply
Of names for the destruction
Small gods as small pilgrims
Manifesting through the portal
Moving away at last
To foreign altars
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And what they do to us
Who would be faithful
If we knew the rites
The saints
For weather and
Forfending the destruction
Of an age
Each time
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Grocery Store Evangelists
x
I met two evangelists
Last evening
After I got all the pills
That I needed
Well
Nearly
(the count after
means I need to order
more
silly
heart disease)
And was shopping
For a little more
When a tract appeared
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Do I believe in God
How about Jesus
And the Holy Spirit
Am I saved
Do I read my Bible
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I could say yes
And so we had
A pleasant conversation
In the spirit
We invoked
As two and three were gathered
(that’s in the Bible
too)
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Their work is urgent
And actually
They’re happy
In it
Still the greater task
Not to take on faith-attackers in the forum
But to reach
The dispossessed
Who are indifferent
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The lukewarm dogs
That Revelation says
Are the greater challenges
To see
To hear
To taste
The need for faith
x
Through all the rings of Earth
The rounds
Of worldly agendas
x
I wish them well
I wish no violence
I wish smooth rhetoric
All love through
Everything
They are
And move
And have their being
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For through God we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets (Aratus, say) have said, “We are God’s offspring.”
Acts of the Apostles 17:28
NIV with paraphrase
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These Girls, These Women
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I wish I were more
Like Meg
But I don’t have a seeing rock
And I’m not that faithful
Though my feelings
Toward my father
Moved
Evolved
As well
x
I wish I were like Angharad
But I’m not a warrior
And have not won
A blue sword
x
Or the young women in
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Who was running
From her persecutors
Turned
And beheld
Her ship of rescue
x
I have the managerial acumen
Of Mom
Some of her anger
Too
And there’s my sister
Who does everything
So well
x
Maintains a jungle
In her home
While I take my few plants
To turn them brittle
Though
The pots look nice
x
These girls
These women
We should learn so much
About being boys
And men
And girls
And women
And scions of great literature
Ourselves to qualify
Among them
Should someone tell
With fictive elegance
Our stories
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Photo by Vlad Frolov on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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It’s International Women’s Day
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Women holding children
There are men, too,
It’s the men making the choices
For the war
Women rule, here and there
Some are good
Some are bad
Women still earn less than men
Too many live reactive lives
Rather than pushing
As any should be
With dreams, ambitions
Owning life
Rather than waiting for the chance
As if it were a gift
From men
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So much I do not understand
But I think I understand that much
x
Frankly,
And you know
Too much is wrong
And it should change
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“Love to Ukraine ❤️”
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Published 10h ago
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(x = space)
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Amnon
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I don’t know what
To say about the women
Who have died
Who were murdered
Or left
To die another way,
Another kind
Of murder
x
Casualties
In war or other
Barbarism
Starved, thirsted
Frightened
Or abandoned out
Of existence
x
We can do this
We can do this to each other
Men can do this
To women
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[Image by] Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China – Winged Victory of Samothrace, Marble, c. 190 BC, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=101242500
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Slow Men
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God bless slow men
(I don’t mean still waters)
Who are not evil
Who have sins in the past
And who knows
For the present
x
But do not move in haste
To rule the world
Or a part,
Who listen sitting down
Or walking ‘round the block
x
Who are not old
But take pleasure in
Slow ways
To make love
And have love, after
X
I might talk slow women
Except
They know the wisdom
When to be fast
When to be still
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Photo by Benjamin Smith on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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A Lost World
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I took my .22,
Shot at paper targets
I wasn’t very good
There were
I’m sure
Excuses
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I could not shoot Bambi
There are those who could
And use the food
At home or to give
To other,
Hungry people
x
A bullet from a distance
What might Cain
Have devised?
With such Indiscretion
And the safety off,
He might have gone
After Seth
x
Then where would we be
For progeny
With only wives surviving, were
They out of range?
x
They might retrieve
The guns
Then learn to shoot for life,
Maybe instructed by
An angel
Out of Eden
x
An imagined state
Doomed,
We’d think
Excepting life to find a way
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Suspect nabbed in stray bullet slaying of 1-year-old Brooklyn boy sitting in stroller last summer
The accused shooter in last summer’s horrific stray bullet shooting of a 1-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn playground was charged Thursday in the devastating death that shocked a pandemic-stricken city and rattled Mayor de Blasio.
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Photo by Omkar Jadhav on Unsplash
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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, then by Michael Crichton
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(x = space)
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A Book of Second or Third Genesis
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What if Adam had
Eaten first?
On the outside, maybe
Pretty much the same
And on the inside
A righteous change
To history
x
Though, of course,
We wouldn’t know it
What we’d know
Is maybe men
Forfending, maybe
Or a readier
Different sort
Of heart from women
x
Forgiveness all around
You see,
It’s possible
And it’s possible
Men would have understood
Something more
Of consequence
x
Hmm, is it possible
The hurt of childbirth
Might have been
Visited the other way?
And to get us through
Each day,
Might men have learned
To ask direction from
The partner species?
Not because of childbirth
But because,
You know,
Each day
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A second book of Genesis
Isn’t around the
Corner up ahead
Unless there is
A fanciful commission
But a forthcoming way to think
That doesn’t hurt
Except in ego’s pocket
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Might help
A world
(a human world)
That is at present torn up
Over truth
A service, by the way,
Of creativity
To fill
A needful break in solid life
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Photo by atared althaqeb on Unsplash
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IWD ‘19
Today has been (to
announce it)
International Women’s Day,
And in my country
Women have said they
Own the responsibility
For women’s status not only here
But also in the world
To me, this is amazing
It’s sisterhood
(you decide how to say this—)
Yeah, it is
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With nearly 1000 [African-American] women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder-trainee Josie Lucille Owens plies her trade on the ship.
Huffington Post
Most U.S. women see gender equality around the world as their shared responsibility.
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