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When the Movement Opened Up.(Poem)

Feminist Studies

| September 22, 2008 | Piercy, Marge | COPYRIGHT 2008 Feminist Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
The seventies were a tangerine sunrise 
for women like me, even women unlike 
me. We felt unblinded. Our super 
eyes saw through walls and clothing. 
 
We were suddenly sisters, sisters 
in every town and mountaintop 
and polluted valley. Oh, we were 
often silly. There was such pressure 
 
to discard bras my 38Ds flapped 
loose, wriggling like fat puppies 
under my regulation drab. But 
readings overflowed with hungry 
 
women eating words like chocolate 
cookies, drinking words like red  ...
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