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after Whisper Country, Little House On The Prairie<\/em><\/p>\n by some woman who hasn\u2019t learned to read <\/span><\/p>\n just thrash Bibles at the sky.\u00a0 <\/span>Call forth flames,<\/span><\/p>\n lightning nigh on Marian blue eyes with screed <\/span><\/p>\n of childhood scriptures memorized. Defame <\/span><\/p>\n teen jezebels, demonize soap upon <\/span><\/p>\n contaminated skin, false hopes one might <\/span><\/p>\n become clean again \u2014\u00a0 <\/span>whores of Babylon,<\/span><\/p>\n pink educated lips, raiments, worm white,<\/span><\/p>\n a rotten stench — near children. Unbraid<\/span><\/p>\n their hair.\u00a0 <\/span>Share anecdotes about World Fairs \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n the voices heard though miles away.\u00a0 <\/span>Afraid <\/span><\/p>\n she opened up their world today.\u00a0 <\/span>Prepared <\/span><\/p>\n the young to leave a prairie and to spurn <\/span><\/p>\n an ignorance where what we fear should burn.<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n after Whisper Country, Little House On The Prairie by some woman who hasn\u2019t learned to read just thrash Bibles at the sky.\u00a0 Call forth …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166,241,183,220,243,268,213,169,242,219],"tags":[298,265,266,125,264],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-domestic-violence","category-education","category-feminism","category-narcissistic-abuse","category-patriarchy","category-poetry","category-solidarity","category-spirituality","category-toxic-masculinity","tag-internalized-misogyny","tag-misogyny","tag-patriarchy","tag-violence","tag-violence-against-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image0-3.jpeg?fit=640%2C477&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kristin Garth<\/strong> is a Pushcart, Best of the Net & Rhysling nominated sonnet stalker. Her sonnets have stalked journals like Glass, Yes, Five:2:One, Luna Luna and more. She is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Pink Plastic House (Maverick Duck Press), Candy Cigarette Womanchild Noir (The Hedgehog Poetry Press), Flutter: Southern Gothic Fever Dream (TwistiT Press), The Meadow (APEP Publications) and Shut Your Eyes, Succubi (Maverick Duck). Follow her on Twitter:\u00a0 (@lolaandjolie) and her website http:\/\/kristingarth.com<\/a><\/h5>\n
Author’s Note: <\/strong>I’m completing a manuscript on fire being used as a tool of misogyny against\u00a0women historically and in contemporary times. \u00a0A few nights ago celebrating the holidays, I’d had a little bit to drink and was decompressing from writing heavy poems and editing to watch a little Little House On The Prairie. \u00a0The subject of the episode, Whisper Country however was as dark as my poems as of late and very relevant. \u00a0Mary Ingalls, on her first teaching assignment, in a very backward thinking smaller town, is accused of being a jezebel and threatened even with fire by the female spiritual leader of the town — a woman who cannot read and has memorized incorrectly the scriptures she bases her hatred upon. \u00a0This episode felt so relevant to me about how extremists and abusers twist religious ideas to their evil purposes. \u00a0It’s sad to say how much \u00a0I related to this episode of Little House On The Prairie. \u00a0Sad any woman does.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"