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definition: meaning “the floating world” use in a poem: Because they fall we love them –the cherry blossoms. In this floating world, does anything endure?
Ariwara no Narihira
I was 4 years old when I asked my mother how to be skinny. Tiny, mini, I was no bigger than her pinky, my mother looked herself in the mirror and sighed. That was the day I learned to “pull my shoulders back and suck in my tummy”.
I was thirteen years old when honey first dripped down my thighs. Eyes wide as I sized up my body In the mirror, my mothers words echoed in my ears, “you’re a woman now”.
The first body of a woman I worshipped wasn’t my own. My skin aglow under touches good and bad.
I was fifteen, starving myself to look lean, not too keen with the way my body bent in half for others.
It wasn’t until twenty three when I first traced the curve of my hips with finger tips, loved the way words fell off my lips, took naked pics. Gripping, grasping, gasping in awe of each bump on my skin and fold of my tummy. mourning the years I wished for anything other than this body.
I am twenty five and touches are soft, two years with them waft by, warmth thawing subtle frost. I can’t begin to map the kisses left in the moments they taught me how to worship myself.
poem by Shannon F.
vestal virgins are a namesake of virgos, the star sign ruled by mercury. they were the only group of Roman women who were granted the basic legal rights that male citizens possessed automatically. they were free from their father's rule, could vote, could make wills and own property. the unchaste Vestal was often buried alive.
the sunflower girl co trvia #1 the vestal virgin (astrology)
i know your secret, virgo for a minute with venus a lifetime with mecury
Nashville, Tennessee-- Union officials were positive that Smoky Row "prostitutes" were the source of sexual diseases, such as syphillis, that were taking out their men. Terrified of disease, officials decided it was easier to get rid of them, than it was to keep their men from paying for sex. By July, they were gathered and expelled to the brand-new steamboat recently christened the I-dahoe. The public was told "bid goodbye to those frail sisters once and for all."
All 111 women aboard the Idahoe had one thing in common: their race. The women heading for points north were all white.
Almost immediately upon their departure, their black counterparts took their places in the city’s brothels and its alleys, much to the chagrin of the Nashville Daily Union:
"The sudden expatriation of hundreds of vicious white women will only make room for an equal number of negro strumpets.
Unless the aggravated curse of lechery as it exists among the negresses of the town is destroyed by rigid military or civil mandates, or the indiscriminate expulsion of the guilty sex, the ejectment of the white class will turn out to have been productive of the sin it was intended to eradicate….
We dare say no city in the country has been more shamefully abused by the conduct of its unchaste females, white and Negro, than has Nashville for the past fifteen or eighteen months."
the trivia poem -mernine a
"a minute with venus, a year with mercury"
our April Zine theme is: trivia coming May 2023 enjoy sprng legends.break,
