Stands my mother before me
Facing the past,
My daughter after me
Facing the future,
Continuous line of being,
History and hope.
(c)Beverly Outlaw
published in Skipping Stones Vol VI
Mindworm Press, Chesapeake, VA
A full year of poems, a new one every day, from the poets of Virginia (radiating out from Hampton Roads) on the theme of Woman - who she is, who she is not, who she ought to be, her essence, how she sees herself, how women see her, how men see her, how children see her, how the classics see her, how different cultures see her, how history and cultures and mythology see her and have seen her, and on and on ...
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