Ashley Fox

SFF writer, poet and feminist. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

[Ashley Fox @_AFox_]

#poetry

Anthem

We are hurt.
Shot, stabbed, raped,
and we are leaving
the false safety of your sails.

No longer knotted in conforming
contortions of genteel glamour,
but teeth bared,
gritted with a rage that clamours.

[Ashley Fox @_AFox_]

Matey helped me drain off my mead. Now both batches, golden & blood, are back in the bucket with more honey for second round. Usually done for Samhain but my bday will do...

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Ok 2nd day out the house, other lover. A little kiss, some wine in & just managed to cook the most perfect bowl of rice to go with left over honey chilli chicken I bought. Like synchronicity

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Oh &nan loved the scarf I got her which I gifted her today what with storm on the way tonight. It's huge & was once expensive, even smells it. She called once home much pleased!

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Couple of days before I turn 40 tho...when she told people they I insisted I must be in my 20s so clearly the fit worked.

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Wore the black cheese cloth dress (has pockets) to my birthday day dinner with nan. She managed to find over the knee black socks for me, as well as a tiramisu for my cake. Lovely time.

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Ok honey chilli chicken & rice went down a treat. Ate the one thigh I had but have more veg left...worth getting scotch bonnet in my eye lol

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Sunset between branches of crossroads tree

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Making random dinner out of what remains Inc an on the turn pineapple & this pepper I grew. Will make sure I buy better seeds next time.

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Had a nearing end of period bath washing off bloodstains & shaving all the thickets. Even painted my nails. Not actually that pale just contrast in morning light...you can almost see my stripes.

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& for those who fear or have innate backlash remember the matriarchy loved their boys & men, held much value & honour. They proudly represented. & This covered full spectrum of masculinity.

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Always since the rise of patriarchy, particularly last 1000yrs, this friction. What is & is not women's knowledge in fashion by power of control & simplified understanding

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When my grandpa learned my certainty of old ways he warned me of cults, the history key texts & players. My women taught me the continuity

[Ashley Fox @_AFox_]

Today, minus a few bits, my algorithm was partially curated to tribes music across the world. From Scots drums, To NZ women's rugby haka, to Black Hills defeating Custer.

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Sometimes the core held & indeed led to corra...at other times all that fucking jazz. Ancient lost to an erection of falsely interpreted archtypes.

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Miss Brit elders; druids, witches, ravers alike. New wave gave into Americanism of Wicca too much bolstered by certain estoric fame linked with scientific & political revolutions

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Tried going to a local witchy fair in assc wshop recently opened. Cheap frauds & worse wares. Prefer my crystals decently carved in china by workers that respect the materials. Which they do.

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Until I told him of the rigours & he compared that to how he felt + listening to other mothers until op to view it himself. He respected me & what it took.

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We remember being born. We have opinions about. 80's racist, deemed jaundice, was painfully bleached. He due to my tightness & strength of push (3 long periods contractions) was a bit conehead. That so annoyed him...

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When my son was born he had memories from before from glyphs in my womb he caught to find thruout symbol & alphabet to a point before in a forest. The same as I remember. The ancestral place we sometimes seek medicine to guide us to or can walk to via dream...

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My 16yo mum couldn't handle it. An unwanted pregnancy then genius baby who asked Q's that harkened to most fundamental ancestral foundations whilst family was so critical of her. I think that fuelled her drive to move back finish diploma 2 yrs later.