Pen and Cape » Wonder Woman http://penandcape.com Sometimes our dreams grow up with us. Fri, 18 May 2012 13:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An Open Letter… http://penandcape.com/poetry/an-open-letter/ http://penandcape.com/poetry/an-open-letter/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:52:51 +0000 jmott http://penandcape.com/?p=429 An Open Letter to Up and Coming World-Savers (Wonder Woman)

We all know the keys to our own transformations: the secluded phone booths, the darkened caves, the candlesticks that open the secret changing room in the library, the magic words that conjure lightning,

and on and on.  We’ve all created our methods of shedding self in favor of  Freud’s superego. ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/poetry/an-open-letter/feed/ 2 Pax Romana http://penandcape.com/poetry/pax-romana/ http://penandcape.com/poetry/pax-romana/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:50:20 +0000 jmott http://penandcape.com/?p=426 Pax Romana (Wonder Woman)

A boy, no more than twelve, chanted, through shuttered eyes, something about freedom from tyrants, a government in homage of its people.

I hardly heard him over the howling crowd, the firecracker gunfire, the Molotov cocktails washing down in hot, smooth arcs across the red-bricked square.

By the capital building, there was a girl serving ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/poetry/pax-romana/feed/ 0