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Issue 1 Works

From the First-Issue Collective
Toward Socialist Feminism
Tijuana Maid
Women in the Community Mural Movement
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Adman
Zucchini Poem
The Art of Not Bowing: Writing by Women in Prison
Astrology Hype
Ten Ways of Looking at Prison Lunch
Alone
La Roquette, Women's Prison
Fays, Floozies, and Philosphical Flaws
The Esthetics of Power in Modern Erotic Art
ABCS
Do You Think
the empress anastasia in new york
Dead in Bloody Snow
Notes From the First Year
Feminist Abstract Art--A Poltical Viewpoint
"Female Experience in Art": The Impact of Women's Art in a Work Environment
The Glass Swan: Upward and Downward Mobility in the Art World
Juggling Contradictions: Feminism, the Individual and What's Left
Moratorium: Front Lawn: 1970
Who Are We? What Do We Want? What Do We Do?
On Women's Refusal to Celebrate Male Creativity
What is Left?
Around Coming Around-- a performance
Wages for Housework: The Strategy for Women's Liberation
Still Ain't Satisfied

Zucchini Poem

Elizabeth Zelvin


the zucchini crouches
behind a broad green leaf
patient in her camouflage


imperialist tentacles of vine
are taking over the garden
shouting mine mine


like a woman waiting
for the revolution
the zucchini bides her time


rain falls in the night
first stealthy
then triumphant like a coup d'état


come morning
the zucchini squats
swollen in the sunlight


proud of her belly
covering the earth
with a yellow flower behind her ear

 

Elizabeth Zelvin is a writer living in New York who has poems appearing in Womanspirit and 13th Moon. She has recently completed a book about an alternative marriage, and among her other interests are "singing and song-writing, teaching creative movement, and trying to understand the synthesis of anarchism and feminism."