WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHILE WE WATCH THE HANDMAID’S TALE

What if my dystopia is your heaven, my utopia your hell?
We’re not on the same page, darling
May I still call you that?
You said it could never happen here
Isn’t that what the Germans said of Hitler?
Where did they think his anti-semantic rants would lead?
Darling, I know in your heart the idea has some appeal
Men hate it when women say no
The President is accused of rape, and his party says, So what?
Why wield the hammer, why wield at all?
Just lie on the warm grass with me, revel in the sun
As you drive me into the soft earth I watch the trees speak
A language of dance and sway—gently now, but they too can rage when pushed
You’re pushing me
    I’d like you to stop
Darling, I say
Can you hear me?
Or have you reduced me to silence?


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Anne Leigh Parrish is an award-winning author of fourteen books. Her work has won many honorable awards such as: 2021 Story Circle Sarton Award Finalist 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner 2020 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List 2020 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention, General Fiction Category 2017 Maxy Awards, Best Fiction Winner 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Anne Leigh Parrish’s new novel, The Hedgerow, appears in July 2024 from Unsolicited Press. Diary of a False Assassin, her next poetry collection, will arrive in December 2024, also from Unsolicited Press. Recent titles are A Summer Morning, a novel; An Open Door, a novel, and If The Sky Won’t Have Me, a poetry collection. She is the author of ten other books. She has recently ventured into the art of photography and lives in the South Sound Region of Washington State. Find her online at her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. Explore her photography at www.laviniastudios.com.

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