{"id":42,"date":"2009-04-11T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:04:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:04:34","slug":"for-we-are-all-madwomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"For We Are All Madwomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For we are all madwomen<br \/>\nin torn voile dresses<br \/>\ncarrying groceries<br \/>\nscreaming at butchers<br \/>\nimpatient, decisive<br \/>\non fire with love &#8212;<br \/>\nspringing from beds in the morning<br \/>\njumping from windows in the afternoon<br \/>\ntossing from side to side<br \/>\nthose menacing glances of ours.<\/p>\n<p>For we are all madwomen<br \/>\nlaughing at parties<br \/>\nshowing our underwear to the men<br \/>\nand laughing some more.<br \/>\nWe own silver forks engraved<br \/>\nwith the names of dead aunts;<br \/>\nall codes, passwords and signals<br \/>\nbelong to us.<br \/>\nWe are the sails, and of course,<br \/>\nthe wind behind the sails.<\/p>\n<p>For we are all madwomen<br \/>\nstooping, hunting, faceless<br \/>\nlike nuns in a convent garden<br \/>\nproud of our children, dangerous, cast aside<br \/>\ntired of the same old stuff \u2013<br \/>\nwaiting for the chance to change the world<br \/>\nback into a melon<br \/>\nwhere the cities would be seeds<br \/>\nheld together by something sweet in the dark.<\/p>\n<p><em>Appeared in Tthe Malahat Review<br \/>\nNumber 52, October, 1979<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney For we are all madwomen in torn voile dresses carrying groceries screaming at butchers impatient, decisive on fire with love &#8212; springing from beds in the morning jumping from windows in the afternoon tossing from side to side those menacing glances of ours. For we are all madwomen laughing at parties showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for_we_are_all_madwomen","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}