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| Bedroom, Saint Victor des Oules France |
Check out the latest Mascara Literary Review for a great selection of prose poetry edited by Keri Glastonbury.
Includes Jill Jones, Jaimie Gusman, Susan Schultz, Tim Wright, Bella Li, Michael Farell and other great poets.
Here is one by Suneeta Perez da Costa, an Australian writer who shows the strong influence of French modernism/post modernism.
The
Changed Woman
Had she changed, she wondered? For though there were some
visible signs of her transformation what was difficult was that the more
significant changes had happened inside her and therefore could not really be
seen at all. Often she tried to remember and make the gestures of her old self,
and while this might have reassured the others, she herself knew this old self
was merely a sheath, an elaborate and outmoded disguise. When she discarded it,
however, it seemed these people, much beloved by her, could not recognise her
and spoke disapprovingly of her new ways. Despite her efforts to win them over,
they were unwilling, or else incapable, of understanding her. They went about
their lives, faithful to their old habits, while she grew restive and weary of
it all, dreaming of circuses and caravans and distant lands. Eventually she
devised an escape plan. The heartbreaking thing was she could not say goodbye
for if she so much as looked into the eyes of these familiar people, now
virtual strangers, she was sure her resolve to leave would itself break
forever. So on the appointed day, she rose at dawn, placed a few
possessions—heirlooms and relics as she already considered them—in a bag and
made her way to the end of the valley and up through the mountain pass. The sky
changed, the vegetation changed, but somehow, despite the heavy cloak she wore
for protection from the elements, she felt a sure-footed lightheartedness.
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