She at the Harvest’s Edge
Women look to get it right
They appear to be on line in every way
They dig to find new truth
And ways to keep what’s hale of old
They don’t take from men
Though men should give it over
C L Couch
#GlobalGirlsAlliance
#morethancute
image by Virginia DeVinne
Men into Space
(someone else’s nostalgia)
William Lundigan beat them all
Because he got to space in the fifties
I didn’t see this show while
Growing up
Or Johnny Sokko with his giant robot in the
Half hour before
Other shows I missed as well
Supercar, for instance
I guess this was the fifties-sixties way
To get us there
Enjoy the ride
And encounter who knows what
Only the television writers knew
Thankful for retrograde, I guess
Retroactive, retrospective
The tier of channels that carry
Our imagination
From the past
Into the present
Maybe to conferences
And comic books
And all sorts of new brains
New days
That started here
In my older siblilngs’ days
Brought forward
Into better resolution
Now let’s have, please
Women into Space
C L Couch
image, NASA
STS Discovery Mission 131, International Space Station
Astronauts (clockwise from top right) Naoko Yamazaki, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, and Tracy Caldwell
If We Dance
(#InternationalWomensDay)
a circle and a cross
the symbol for Earth has the cross inside
but this is close enough
to know
the movement is planet-wide
there are things that
don’t need new reason
for dealing with the ancient one
there is gender
women number more
the feminine make up half at least
of who we are
one by one
and altogether
who are we without
we are not whole
we countermand creation
what other gaps cannot be filled
with sex, yes, and
decision
we are strong
and strength will out
muscle and what’s beneath
indifference energized
to charge the fight
for what should be evidential reason
someday a woman will preside
over the table
as a woman did, once
and long ago
inviting her will be
forgone
by then
let women rule
no let about it
women can and will
seek the alliance now
call it marriage
friendship
partnering or
of a presidency
in place and time
call it quits on
masculine oppression
give up the gate
that she has managed age
by age
the less-than-half survive
through what she does
the rest, the most
already know
let her in
before she keeps the rest away
celebrate the whole one
we can be
C L Couch
https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
#InternationalWomensDay
Hospitalism
My sister tells me it’s a man thing
Not wanting to go to the
Hospital
It’s certainly true that I do not want to go
And that I thought this
A healthy inclination
Now I wonder if for those women who
Care so much
(In quantity and quality) if there is a
Kind of comfort there
Someone else to provide, to
Decide,
To break the news
And deal with it first
C L Couch
Maybe I’m Not Human
Don’t listen to me
I am woman
What do I know
Please vote in place of me
Rule me in a democracy
Of one in which
I’m other
Am I human
Sometimes I must wonder
I should read up on this*
In the mean time,
I plot my course from
Ignominy
For, really,
How could I make my way without
You
Okay, now the nightmare’s over
I will make it so
Hear me howl across the ages into
Modern reckoning
I am here
I know
I love you
Now be with me
And let me be
*Dorothy Sayers was once asked in outrageous sincerity to pen an essay to the question “Are Women Human?” She wrote, planting her tongue in her cheek and opening up her brilliant mind. The title is eponymous of the question. Please read the essay. It’s good.
C L Couch
Lysistrata Vote
(USA, elsewhere)
A comedy by Aristophanes
And a Spanish film
From 2002
(Thanks, Wiki-P)
The Lysistrata woman
Wages sex against men who
Rather
Want to go to war
She wins, averting
Armageddon
Between Sparta and Athens
And, as in all good comedies
(Classic, say),
The community is better,
Stronger for it
For her
Now
For all shes who must be obeyed,
Time for another laugh like this?
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