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Totem. Kathleen Culver.

Kathleen Culver

Totem

 On the black bull with curved horns 
 a pudgy little man sits  cross-legged 
 Control of passions, my father said.
  
 A girl and boy take turns 
 somersaulting over 
 bulls, placing hands on the back 
 flipping between the horns. 
 Playing with danger, my mom said.
  
 Another voice calls, 
 Come here, says Selene, 
 the bull-horned moon goddess,
 I open my crescent arms to you.
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Kathleen Culver

Born in Chicago, but continually sliding South, Kathleen “Corky” Culver is a poet, activist, videographer and historian who earned her doctorate in English from the University of Florida. Her full-length poetry collection, The Natural Law of Water, was published in 2007. She was on the organizing committee for Celebrate Women 2020. Culver is a life-long scholar of Henry David Thoreau and she lives and writes in a 1935 log cabin on a lake in North Central Florida.

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