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Annette Marie Hyder

Annette Marie Hyder is a freelance journalist, an author and a poet. She is the founder and curator of the international feminist project, "Facing Feminism: Feminists I Know." Her articles have appeared in print throughout the United States and internationally. Her most recent book is "The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow" published by Twilight Times Books. She is currently happily at work on a novel of magical realism.

A Modern Day Persephone

Image Credit: Jasmine Rain Hyder

A Modern Day Persephone
Annette Marie Hyder

I slip my feet into high heels
that strut me through my day
four inches of stiletto steel
that leave exclamation points
instead of flowers
springing like arrows of desire
everywhere my heel has pressed
like a lover's kiss to the waiting
ready, wanting, ground...

(As the Greek goddess/personification of spring, wherever Persephone walked flowers sprang up...)

Links of interest:

Persephone was not just the Greek goddess of spring. She was also the Greek goddess of the underworld.
The Myth of Persephone
Also of related interest:
Fertile Feet - Television Tropes & Idioms