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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” ― Fernando Pessoa.

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Elektra, Sophocles Translated by Anne Carson

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

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Medusa

“Classic myth made Medusa the terrible Gorgon whose look turned men to stone.  The Argives said Medusa was a Libyan queen beheaded by their ancestral hero Perseus, who brought her head (or ceremonial mask) back to Athens.

Actually, Medusa was the serpent-goddess of the Libyan Amazons, representing "female wisdom.”  She was the Destroyed aspect of the Triple Goddess called Ath-enna or Athene in North Africa.  Her inscription at Sais called her “mother of all the gods, whom she bore before childbirth existed.”  She was the past, present, and future:  "All that has been, that is, and that will be.“

She said:  "No mortal has yet been able to lift the veil that covers me,” because she was Death, and to see her face to face was to die–that is, to be “turned to stone” as a funerary statue.  She was veiled also because she was the Future, which always wear a veil.  Another meaning of her hidden, dangerous face was the menstrual taboo.  Primitive folk often believe the look of a [menstruating person] can turn a man to stone.  Medusa had magic blood that could create and destroy life; thus she represented the dreaded life-and death-giving moon blood of [people with vaginas.]

The Perseus story was invented to account for the appearance of Medusa’s face on Athena’s aegis, inherited from the pre-Hellenic period when Athena was actually the same Goddess….Older myths said Athena was born of the Three Queens of Libya–that is, the Triple Goddess, of whom Medusa was the Destroyer aspect.  A female face surrounded by serpent-hair was an ancient, widely recognized symbol of divine female wisdom, and equally of the “wise blood” that supposedly gave [people with vaginas] their divine powers.“

Excerpt from The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker

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“I know sometimes I go missing, dark, a lightless stretch of road, so I spit the road out as I go. What I’m missing isn’t a map, but the means to call again tomorrow. What I’m missing is a picture where the table’s set and all the versions of ourselves sit down to eat, and when we open our mouths, no roads or stones fall out.”

— “Post-Op Letters In the Field Between Us“ by Susannah Nevison & Molly McCully Brown

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Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923

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“In the songs there are windows: enough for blossoms to explode. I leave jasmine in the vase; I leave my young heart / in my mother’s cupboard; I leave my dream, laughing, in water; / I leave the dawn in the honey of the figs; I leave my day and my / yesterday / in the passage to the Square of the Orange where doves fly.”

—Agha Shahid Ali, ‘I want from love only the beginning’, from The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali

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“There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine… This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.”

— Marianne Williamson

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Orchid Plant, New York City, Photo by Mariana Cook, 2000

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“Forgive. I swear, the word has feathers. I want to learn to get its wings between my teeth before more retribution blots out the sky.”

— Jamaal May, “Sky Now Black With Birds”

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“Sometimes the soul knows of an impending shift before the shift arrives. A subtle tremor in the air before the lightning strike.”

— Frank LaRue Owen, from “Blister and Resolve,” The Temple of Warm Harmony (Homebound Publications, 2019)

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Martha Goetz - Petal Paws, 2020

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Keep it going for the 2021 and forever (x)

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The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

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“Without any remaining wilderness we are committed wholly, without chance for even momentary reflection or rest, to a headlong drive into our technological termite life, the Brave New World of a completely man-controlled environment.”

— Wilderness Letter by Wallace Stegner