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Cinderellaour primal Europathic pubescent girl mythall dressed up in charming patriarchy & yet carrier of the good witch fairy godmother virus which the Church almost eradicated with its feudal bloodletting & auto da fe flames but here survives infecting even valley girls with some wild lost scent of the goddess the story Chinese originally 9th century Taoist tale told with spice & Marco Polo'd back to the Mediterranean how yin yang with luck it goes from rags to riches gutters to golden slippers & all too soon is gone before the midnight hour when we freeze in place Delphic statuary wreathed & lyred in our own polished fable facing the forever eternal now happily ever after or not |
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Issue #13, January, 2000 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.