New poem: Hutch of Were

feed.ass

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 # 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

poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt

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+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

poetry/index.gmi

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 => 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

poetry/index.gph

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 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

poetry/index.html

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 	│   ├── <a href="./h/hoarding.txt">hoarding.txt</a><br>
 	│   ├── <a href="./h/home.txt">home.txt</a><br>
 	│   ├── <a href="./h/hotdog.txt">hotdog.txt</a><br>
+	│   ├── <a href="./h/hutch_of_were.txt">hutch_of_were.txt</a><br>
 	│   └── <a href="./h/hyperloop.txt">hyperloop.txt</a><br>
 	├── <a href="./header.gph">header.gph</a><br>
 	├── <a href="./i/">i</a><br>
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 	</p>
 	<p>
 
-24 directories, 151 files
+24 directories, 152 files
 	<br><br>
 	</p>
 	<hr>

women.md

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 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
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 - [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