BJ 581 in Birka - by
Was she then a lover,
a wife, a sister, cousin, aunt?
Was she laid there in jest,
as a punishment, as an example?
feminism
The Woman and the Snail - by
Over the leaves, in peril and alone,Delicately dragging your foolish house along,You wander, and the shell that seems a stoneA thrush could crack between two jets of song. You move as if some cold, unfruitful actAccomplished, drew you from distasteful strife,But beneath that shell your body, cool, compact,Tenacious, leads its fierce and secret life. And […]
Dr Wha - by
Wha’s jist a thoctie in anither’s heid?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor s^he?
Spartaca - by
we stand together, each one a Spartaca
no longer silent or alone: each voice stronger,
massing, alive, a wild murmuration
Every Woman - by
Who can gauge our range or pace? Every woman, / a signal tower, an illusion, a ship bearing dead ahead.
Inna Calabash - by
Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash
Women Demobilised - by
July 1919
/
/ Now we must go back again to the world
/ Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying,
/ And in the…
First Love - by
They say I should not wait about your street,
/ nor call upon your friends to hear of you,
/ or go to places…
Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class - by
How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange / To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?…
Hard Working Women - by
Hold on Women of great courage
/ You have held on so bravely and tirelessly
/ Hold on Women of great courage, hold on
/
/ Women…
from Wanted A Husband - by
Wanted a husband who doesn’t suppose,
/ That all earthly employments one feminine knows, –
/ That she’ll scrub, do the cleaning,…
The Queen of Sheba - by
an extract
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/ she wants to strip the willow
/ she desires the keys
/ …