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murder

Juárez/Ecapatec - by Juana Adcock

{ Poem }

I was looking, in vain, for the newspaper article
that told our story among the deluge of pages

on the thousands of women of similar fates.

Stobhill - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Yes, I agreed to perform the abortion.
The girl was under unusual strain.

From Macbeth - by William Shakespeare

{ Poem }

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
/ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
/ I have thee…

Ariadne - by Eunice Buchanan

{ Poem }

The threid that reeled him in
/ has brocht me oot –
/ oot o the nairra mask
/ o thirled weys
/ tae the clear licht…

1936 - by Jim C. Wilson

{ Poem }

Oh Lorca, did skeletons show
/ gold teeth to you
/
/ when men held you down
/ in their terrible passion,
/
/ thrust the rifle deep in your…

And the washing still out drying - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

the day got up with a hang-over
/ birds played hide and seek
/ with a boy’s flung stones…

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