The Maynard

fall 2019

Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer

reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells

{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor

Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon

Clouds Max Heinegg

Sailor Mark Gregory Lopez

Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson

Zwedru Landa wo

Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger

Clay Man Susana H. Case

Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith

Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser

Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman

Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg

Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl

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Women of Trachis

SOPHOCLES
          takes a violent character and makes her
                              DUTIFUL,     makes her
                              WIFE,            makes her
                              DOMESTIC.

DEINARA,
          i too want to be made DUTIFUL
          i too want to be made GOOD
          i too want to be made INNOCENT
          STRIPPED of my family history
          UPROOTED from the soils that raised me

          called GIRL with my corpse lying in the marriage bed
                      bleeding out into a man’s sheets the way i am supposed to.

SOPHOCLES, tragedian,
          can you wash my hands of poison, too?
          show me how to be the bearer of someone else’s FAITH//
          i mean FATE//
          i mean can you show me how to be a WOMB//i mean WOMAN//
          the way i am supposed to be.

DEINARA, amazon,
          is it comforting to be reduced to a vessel?
          to be poured out by stronger hands?

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