Thursday, 1 May 2025

1st May 2025

 

May day

maypole dancing and voting against fascism

M'aidez*


© Rachel Green May 2025


*short for venez m’aider


VI.VI


Traditionally depicted as a 'he'

by men who thought important posts

unfit for woman's hands, especially

the angels leading Heavenly hosts.

Pestilence, while also known as Plague 

or Pollution in hereafter years

had, by very definition, vague

allusions to their gender, represented fears

of populations wiped by ills of God's decree

caused by bodies left unburied by

the march of Christianity

which saved the common folk to die.


© Rachel Green May 2025


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