With hummingbirds beginning to arrive, here’s a hummingbird poem comparing them to…menstruation!
Tag Archives: "to my last period"
On Hummingbirds and…Menstruation?!
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Lucille Clifton on Turning Red
Pixar’s “Turning Red” brings to mind a series of Lucille Clifton poems where she too looks at the red dimensions of womanhood–and how to handle them.
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Farewell to Serena’s Dominance?
Friday It was only a quarterfinal match at the Australian Open, but when Serena Williams lost a match in which she was serving at 5-1, 40-30 in the deciding third set, we had a second pillar teetering amongst those that have been supporting the tennis universe.. To borrow from A. E Housman, it felt like […]
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