Our Women’s History Month celebration would hardly be complete without the queen of them all, Cleopatra!

We offer a nine poem series.

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Recorded Reading (0:41): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aa40ewqy6au0fznn1tatg/cleo-eight.mp3?rlkey=qj7cqdbhi81c6h0ksnv0l6pn4&dl=0

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cleo eight

cleo kissed me!

oh…

from the side
a little to the rear
just where my neck
meets my ear

oh!

it was…

oh, it was sensuous
of course

but

in the freshest
most girlwomanish
and very very
merriest
of ways…

ah!

i so understood
what it was he stayed for
long past the time
to return
home to his
shrewish
wife

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working seven days a week to contribute to her society, however.

Arts patrons may visit http://www.UgiftABLE.com , using code #72D-31S, or choose to send a personal check to the poet’s ABLE account. It takes about two weeks for the poet to be notified of your patronage.

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