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Le Cri de Mélusine after a French folk tale
If you had only listened, Raymond, and not bowed to convention, impatient husband with no imagination, now most cursed in tout le monde.
Six days a week I was the perfect wife and mother. Couldn't you respect my one wild day? My bath where I flipped my fish tail (outré !) was sacred, till you peeked, gaped at The Other.
Over our village I fly, a wingèd serpent, circling three times, sobbing a woman's grief. I will leave forever. Our family life was brief. Children, I'll always care but I won't repent.
--Karen Braucher from Aqua Curves (NFSPS Press, copyright 2005), also published in the new renaissance
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