![]() ![]() The starlet of the day, and yet was unexpectedly savedĮach dawning by cliffhangers of impromptu tales, Scheherazade entered his long list of betrothedsĪfter three years of beheadings, and was crowned The bitterly unfaithful whole as exemplified by one-by-one-īy murdering a new procured wife every morning-after. His bruised-heart's willingness to punish all women. Scheherazade took him on to save her sex, to circumvent Using rage as reason on account of his first wife's deceivery. I'm calling her subset of poems in this series 'The Scheherazade Six' and here is the first one, recapping the original predicament.Īfter one hastily-considered late night of feminist bravado,Ī dragon thrashing in the sheets of his vulnerable kingdom, I've been working on a series of Scheherazade poems for over 20 years now. Or do I only feel this way now because her story has always been lingering in the back of my imagination? In any case, she's part of me now. But what a horrific position to be in, I always thought but didn't it turn out to be symbolic for how I often feel myself. ![]() She was surely a beautiful, brave and very smart cookie. And Scheherazade always fascinated me in a somewhat trepidatious way. Seuss, and two Disney albums about the 1001 Arabian Nights. I once had a pretty fine collection of Disney storyteller records as a kid (technically they're still with me in the garage) and a slew of other storytelling records like Aesop's Fables, Dr. ![]() So I've been writing and thinking about Scheherazade for quite a long time. These poems (and all fairy tale poems past Transformations) owes a debt of thanks to Anne Sexton who wrote the masterpiece of a mashup between the world of fairy tales and grim(m) reality. I was very short on time this year and this opportunity presented itself as a way to still participate in NaPoWriMo 2021 by editing one poem every day, just like Scheherazade. This project is more of an editing adventure in order to salvage (and retool) a very old stack of poems (with some added new ones). ![]()
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