chriswind

[chriswind @chris__wind]

in time, the rock of Sisyphus eroded ...
now slowly she walks
all along that barren beach
sweeping the sand back into the water

Woman with Broom

from Paintings and Sculptures

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

Barbie and Ken
side by side
effervescent smiles
unblinking eyes
plastic flesh
hollow hollow

American Gothic

from Paintings and Sculptures

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

sometimes in the morning
on that bare dressing table
in the corner of the bedroom
i can see my heart
hanging
my ruby heart
hanging over over
the
edge
bleeding onto the floor

The Persistence of Memory

from PaintingsandSculptures

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

Among the artists whose work is re-imagined are Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dali, Botticelli, Monet, and Rodin.

(re Paintings and Sculptures)

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

Each piece in this socially conscious collection describes a painting or a sculpture: a re-vision of a classic or an original work not yet realized.

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

tanka

more terrifying
than Hiroshima victims
whose eyes have melted
is the awful knowledge that
it will not move me to act

from dreaming of kaleidoscopes
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nuns
habits of black and white
explaining their faith

from dreaming of kaleidoscopes

#feministpoetry #radfem #radicalfeminist #atheistpoetry

[chriswind @chris__wind]

burn victim

i am always cutting flesh
taking from one part
to heal another–
survival of the self
sufficient.

from dreaming of kaleidoscopes

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

when her mother explained
what a hope chest was
she didn’t know
whether to laugh or cry

from dreaming of kaleidoscopes

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

from dreaming of kaleidoscopes:

to be led
by a man

to not be able to see
where i’m going

to travel backwards

no wonder i could never learn to dance

#feministpoetry #radfem #radicalfeminist

[chriswind @chris__wind]

a non-thematic 'best of' collection of poems spanning about fifteen years, from the poet’s late teens in the 1970s to her early thirties in the 1990s

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

"More often than not, the damsel works through her distress long before the guy even arrives."

from "Sleeping Beauty" in Snow White Gets Her Say

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#feministfairytales #fairytalesretelling #feministfiction

[chriswind @chris__wind]

Classic fairy tales retold – what might have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?

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#feministfairytales #fairytalesretelling #feministfiction

[chriswind @chris__wind]

A collection of the classic fairy tales retold – what would have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?

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#tweetyourbooks

[chriswind @chris__wind]

"He who presumes to justify the ways of God to man cannot ever hope to justify his own ways to his daughters!"

from "The Grapes," an imaginary letter to Milton from one of his daughters, in Deare Sister

#feministfiction #womenshistory

[chriswind @chris__wind]

Letters that might have been written by Lady Godiva, Rubens’ model, Mozart’s mother, Freud’s wife, Plato’s students, and others – assuming a feminist consciousness. (What would they say?)

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#feministfiction #womenshistory

[chriswind @chris__wind]

Letters that might have been written by Lady Godiva, Milton’s daughter, Rubens’ model, Mozart’s mother, Freud’s wife, Plato’s students, and others – assuming a feminist consciousness. (What would they say?)

free downloads at https://t.co/USGQs1IbhA

#tweetyourbooks

[chriswind @chris__wind]

Gorgons

it’s not ourglance
that turns you to stone
but your own—
as soon as you see us
you become cold
insensitive
unable to respond
to ugly women

from UnMythed

#feministmythology #feministpoetry

[chriswind @chris__wind]

Poems revealing the myths within the myths: what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy?

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[chriswind @chris__wind]

"If I were free not to fall in the first place, they were free not to fall after me; and if I were not free, then I can’t be held responsible—for my fall or theirs."

from "I am Eve" in Thus Saith Eve

#feministreligion #feministfiction #atheistfiction #atheism