Collection 14: Against Misogyny
Bone of my bone, Furies and Gorgons, Bearing the image I am appalled by misogyny, which I see as a refuge for insecure men. I believe it's because they are afraid of women that these inadequates seek to manipulate and coerce them. Confident men should always seek to affirm and bless women, and I hope these poems do that. E very writer with a conscience should speak out against the current rise in misogyny, fuelled by torrents of pornography and social media's deplorable dehumanisation of everyone who is different from me. Genesis records that the first human utterance was a love poem - Adam's "At last!" when he finally meets Eve. Unfortunately we are not told what Eve said on this momentous occasion. Here's my guess at it... Bone of my bone In a velvet purse I keep blood and treasure, destiny and source – fear my hips' swagger! You are the pen that skids lightly on the paper. I am the book that holds the word for ever. I am you and not you both kin and str...