Howl at the Moon
 
 
 
 
 
 
Howl at the Moon
 
        Ed. Vikki Bennett
 
        Limited Edition
 
        'Honest, real, colourful and
        accessible.'
 
        Cumbria Life
 
        September 1999/reprint 2000
 
        64pp
 
        ISBN 0 9536989 1 2
 
        £3.00
 
 
The first anthology of poetry from the Wild Women group, Howl at the Moon, officially became a collector’s item March 2006. Seven years on from the first ever Wild Women workshop, this rare treat of real voices has sold out.
 
Extract
 
My Wild Woman
 
My Wild Woman dances on tabletops
in bars full of smoke
and won’t come down ‘till morning.
 
Her flesh is so soft
it makes armies lay down their arms
and cry for their mothers;
a long forgotten innocence.
 
My Wild Woman makes love
with every inch of her body,
just the sight of her toes
would make a grown man beg.
 
She sings full-fat blues songs
from deep in her belly.
She knows the time to go,
catches the midnight train.
 
My Wild Woman speaks the truth
about what she knows and knows
that she is always learning.
 
She howls at the sight
of her children mutilated
and is strong enough to weep
at the sight of a butterfly.
 
My Wild Woman knows the meaning of life
and knows that it is a simple thing.
 
(Vik Bennett 1999)
 
Postscript March 2006 - typing up this poem, I realised that the poet I am now needed to create again from these words - so I did a bit of line revision, 7 years on! Funny thing about my own printed words - they not only reveal to me the person I once was and the journey I am taking, but they also serve to show me how my own creative mannerism  have evolved. So, this is the poem written by the poet “Vik Bennett” in both March 1999 and 2006, as she existed, then and now. This is my howl across time. Vik
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