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Out of the Birdcage
During those wild, life-changing, protest days
when bras were flung into bonfires
hair grown defiantly from armpit and leg,
bodies reclaimed from girdles, June Cleaver clones
and Betty Crocker wanabees,
we held our new consciousness raising group.
Vaginas, our first topic.
Vagina—a word used only by our white-coated GYN's
or grim-faced men writing scholarly articles, aliased
by most other men into epitaphs of derision--
he's pussy whipped,
gimme me some pussy,
gonna find me some
pussy,
she's a real cunt!
We gathered to reclaim the real name for that hidden
tunnel
into our rediscovered femininity.
Not dirty.
Not the sum of our whole.
Not a hurled insult.
When I returned home, my lover lay hard and cold
on his side of the bed, not speaking and terrified
I would leave him, fly free from my cage
into a different sexual reality that would never again
include him in quite the same way.
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Pris Campbell
has been writing poetry since 1999. Some of the
places her poems can be found on the web include
MiPOesias Publications, Poems
Niederngasse,
Boxcar Poetry Review,
The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature,
Empowerment4Women, In
The Fray,
Thunder Sandwich, and George Wallace's
V-Poetry Log, They appear also in print in
The Cliffs: Soundings, Tears in the
Fence, Remark Journal and numerous
anthologies or poetry collections. Her chapbook,
Abrasions, was published by Rank
StrangerPress and Interchangeable Goddesses,
with Tammy Trendle , by Rose of Sharon Press, S.A.
Griffin, publisher. Raised in the Carolinas, she has
lived in Hawaii, Illinois, New England and now lives
in the greater West Palm Beach, Florida. Formerly a
Clinical Psychologist, she has been sidelined by
CFIDS since 1990.
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