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Carrying Water: 100 Days (50)

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Day 50! Halfway there!

I finished the grey panel today and began on the white. I think I can see my way to finish this one. I had my doubts for a while. Went up to see my friend Sam Lewis today. Saw lots of buds and blooms, a flock of deer (I love their tails!) and a grumpy red-tailed hawk (she was making a sort of growling sound). At least three new kite remnants in the trees and wires.

Carrying Water for the Patriarchy
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

See how she trades away her own desire for desirability,
thinks proximity to power will bring her power,
thinks that will bring her safety,
puts on a mask to immobilize her face,
performs her femininity
with vacuous eyes and fatuous lies,
a puppet for the lords of greed.

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Artemis: 100 Days (49)

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Day 49:

A yellow tulip that has been blooming for 20 years (a baby shower gift), more rows on the grey panel, and the Midwife card from Nick Bantock’s Archeo deck.

Artemis

by Beth Weaver-Kreider

How
apt that
now when so
much is at stake for girls
when women unleash the hounds
of Artemis upon the ones who prey
upon our young when we call out against
the cruelty yearning for a more humane way
that we would send this arrow moonward
this rocket basket of beautiful souls into
space to commune with the moon
and name one of her dimples
for a beloved one
to show us
we can be
human
again

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Serviceberry: 100 Days (46)

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Day 46:

I crocheted two rows on the grey panel tonight.

Serviceberry
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

shadblow snow scatters petals
across the walk
last year’s nest (left empty
by robins fledged last spring)
hidden now (almost) in starry blossoms

this tree (named for the fish
that fed the Susquehannocks)
spawns rose and purple berries
(sharp tang, and sweet) in May and June
each blossom now a promise
of tomorrow’s delight

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Magic: 100 Days (42)

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Day 42:
Spent yesterday visiting beloveds and didn’t get home until late. Here is yesterday’s project and poem. A couple rows on the shrug (with some frogging in the process) and hearts and a scrappy grey flower. The scrap basket I finished yesterday, except for weaving in the ends. I heard a raven cronk  behind the dawn chorus when I was out taking photos. Grandma’s (green) and Aunt Lizzie’s (brown) crochet hooks.

Birth
by Beth Weaver-Kreider 

What bird sang
at the moment you were born? 

What animal stood suddenly,
poised and waiting, 
listening as if
for the tiniest murmur
in the quivering air? 

What bud felt the surge
of life force in its roots 
and bloomed?

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Strength: 100 Days (40)

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Day 40:

More rows on the yellow section of the bamboo shrug today, a Forest Fae card reminding me to keep going, and a thoughtful note of kind words from a friend.

Strength
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

Lionwoman opens her jaws
claws catching savannah grasses
releases a yawn.

The force is Love
the choice to live
as though woman
and lion are one.

(With gratitude to Beth Owl’s Daughter for her reflections on the Strength card.)

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