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 (1:03): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c2v5io3kiz14wzbh7mhta/cleo-three.mp3?rlkey=889b9mqp4qdi8v9ymryl9q8ix&dl=0

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cleo three

afterward, you know,
she murmered
they kept you there

had it down to a science

so there you are

drifting around your
shadowy tomb
vaguely wishing
to see the sun
but not
perhaps
really…

it wasn’t so bad at first
rather cramped
for all its grandeur
objects aesthetic in the extreme
unaesthetically arranged
in the extreme

unable to move
anything from here to there
even an inch
i could not tidy my home

then
the tomb robbers came

they went back out
into the sunshine

and like most all human men
in any time or era
left me
with a holy
mess

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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.

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