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captivity myth,
she holds no
woman hostage,

fraudulent scenes
show Indians
attacking white women
to incite emotion
and create tolerance
for stealing Indian land,

another day, another
century, here we are,
same thing,

captivity myth,
she steals no
woman's heart,

just to sell
the Smithsonian
art,

a solitude-loving
woman lover
hunting with passion,

shouldering her "rifle"
(feather quill)
resting on her left
shoulder,

colonizing women
in wilderness, once
more bade adieu to civilization,

endless tracs of literary land
still to be explored, she plunges
alone into the wilderness,

rather melodramatically,
captivity myth, she
steals no woman's heart,

a cut-and-dried heroine,
intent on writing the west,
bold and with wild freedom,

the only existence
for which she really
cares,

"The Wolves! The Wolves!"
she cries, "The Wolves! They
shall save us now!"

The abduction of Daniel Boone's
Daughter, captivity myth,
she holds no woman hostage...


Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist, brainchild of Sage Sweetwater Creative Properties, flagship of Stone Creek Woman