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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
Our Safe Word
Margo Berdeshevsky
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Notes:
This is a piece I am reluctant to explain too much. It must reach the eye and the mind
and the heart—on its own, I hope. I ask and want it to ring loudly, or to whisper, but for
itself and for its reader(s.) There are rituals that suggest that there is such a thing as
a “safe word.” The montage of the poem with the darkly shadowed bells is one way for
me to ask and to say—the bells are speaking now. Aren’t they? They have, before. But
now is now. And now is when we live—while we still do. This is not a safe time. Of
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