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KATE CHOPIN
Kindred spirit to Artemisia and Frida was Kate, who battled men in a man’s world,
As if she could play the patriarchal game, when all the while she suffered the
Torments of the specially gifted differently to see the illusions of the world as she
Eluded the stereotypes of wife and mother, although she was both, and
Created her truer world of Creole and Cajun denizens of real desires and
Hopes of all places and all times. She wrote so people could understand if
Only they would read and learn how women yearn to be another unique
Person, just that and nothing more, a flesh and blood and nerve and mind
Individually wrapped, but sensing the universe and all its possibilities
No more nor less than any other homo sapiens that ever trod the earth.
June 2008
This acrostic poem was first published in Creative Woman, Miami Dade College, 2008; and subsequently in the Ann Arbor Review, Fall 2009.
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