diff --git a/feed.ass b/feed.ass index ce11e57..94ca662 100755 --- a/feed.ass +++ b/feed.ass @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # MayVaneDay ASS (https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/ass/) feed +2023-04-05 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt Hutch of Were 2023-04-02 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/agloe.txt Agloe 2023-04-01 https://mayvaneday.org/blog/2023/april/LiveUSB.html I spent a week using Tails as my only operating system 2023-03-18 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/b/biz_ego_gun.txt Biz Ego Gun diff --git a/img/MirrorCompare.png b/img/MirrorCompare.png new file mode 100755 index 0000000..8f8e922 Binary files /dev/null and b/img/MirrorCompare.png differ diff --git a/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt b/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..9b1f859 --- /dev/null +++ b/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Hutch of Were +2023-04-05 + +*** + +Wind advisory +this evening, +tearing through the trees. +Blizzard comes to reave +the branches, depositing +them at my bedroom window +like a bird's offering. + +Long the hours grow. +Snow-hued fingertips +from nails too short to pierce skin +under pressure, digging in, +will soon be overtaken +by claws the hue of what would flow +if my nails were any length grown. +If your eyes are nebulas, +then earthly suns are in my scleras, +red giants sliced through the middle to get to the core. +Miracle the sheets haven't been torn +to shreds yet, so many curved blades +that could readily eviscerate +but lie relaxed, tail curled around my legs. +Rib cage aches +right above both sides of my waist. +When the ribbons fully overtake, +two more limbs will be there to support my weight. + +"Your daughter is a polymorph +with two known alternate forms. +There is no cure and not yet a treatment. +The state +mandates +she either accept indefinite time sedate +or the highest security of imprisonment. +I'm sorry. I know +you wanted to take her home." + +Had to take the check from the IRS +I'd rather have spent on things more frivolous +and wire sensors near my room for security +somehow without my parents knowing. +Knock on my door after early warning, +shifted back before doorknob +is gazed on. +I've never had to pay attention +to mindfulness, but now dampened +emotions will save me from a prison. + +Suffer from the State, or hide +in the confines +of your room all the time, +or be put in a coma for the rest of your life. + +Damn fate +is the same. + +Close my eyes and let the ribbons overtake. +Roll off the bed, stand before moonlit mirror. +There's a monster on the other side. And I want to know her. + +*** + +CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander diff --git a/poetry/index.gmi b/poetry/index.gmi index d4a4374..4149461 100755 --- a/poetry/index.gmi +++ b/poetry/index.gmi @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ => h/hotdog.txt hotdog => h/home.txt You Can't Go Home Again => h/hyperloop.txt Hyperloop +=> h/hutch_of_were.txt Hutch of Were ## I => i/irantaj.txt irantaj, irantaj, irinta diff --git a/poetry/index.gph b/poetry/index.gph index 38e7491..2882d34 100755 --- a/poetry/index.gph +++ b/poetry/index.gph @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ iH 0hotdog h/hotdog.txt 0You Can't Go Home Again h/home.txt 0Hyperloop h/hyperloop.txt +0Hutch of Were h/hutch_of_were.txt iI 0irantaj, irantaj, irinta i/irinta.txt diff --git a/poetry/index.html b/poetry/index.html index 9381ac6..0e70183 100755 --- a/poetry/index.html +++ b/poetry/index.html @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ │   ├── hoarding.txt
│   ├── home.txt
│   ├── hotdog.txt
+ │   ├── hutch_of_were.txt
│   └── hyperloop.txt
├── header.gph
├── i
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@

-24 directories, 151 files +24 directories, 152 files


diff --git a/women.md b/women.md index fcfd9e8..b6f981a 100755 --- a/women.md +++ b/women.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Unfinished, obviously. -Last updated: 2023-04-01 +Last updated: 2023-04-05 ## Art - [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Last updated: 2023-04-01 - [Diemoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diemoth): 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting" - [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet - [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time +- [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay?lang=en): first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji* - [Valerie Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas): invented the illusion transmitter, critical for the invention of 3D movies - [Maud Wagner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Wagner): first female tattoo artist in the United States