From 'The Misogyny Variations'
The History of Being Sche
Keyword: Iridescence
The Tansy Beetle, almost extinct, lives only in Tansy
plants. Victorians loved their shiny iridescent wings
for decorating women’s garments.
rustling about in the dawn of one civilization after
another uncanny in the near-visibility sche shares with
other iridescent creatures butterflies blowflies moths
beetles wasps sche learns how sche must scintillate the
darkest shadows beyond her own terror toward one
sweet ephemeral after another her world was made for
this before charm turned to strangeness in one domestic
drama after another and festering glamour reeked of
sodden ecstasy the insect choruses murmuring stealth
logics of all the many exotic species of Sche
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glamorous opalescent nacreous shimmering
luminescent glittering sparkling shining gleaming
effulgent lustrous glowing glistering enchanting
mysterious nacreous luminescent beguiling _______________________________________
sweetly seductive seductively sweet seductively
yielding sweetly bestowing seductively swelling
sweetly bleeding seductively moaning sweetly birthing
seductively suckling sweetly singing seductively
singing in swaying treetops sweetly bestowing in
kitchens with mops sweetly weeping seductively
mourning sweetly yielding seductively birthing sweetly
moaning seductively suckling silently weeping
silently mourning silently swelling glistering welling
Edited by Laynie Browne