: About Me

Melisande Luna studied Geology at California State University, Bakersfield. After dropping out late in her junior year, going crazy, partying too hard, and getting divorced, she moved to New Orleans with a large group of friends to help in the rebuilding effort.

You can contact Melisande at melisande_luna@yahoo.com

My passion is ...

Gardening

I know too much about ...

80's rock bands

My parents always told me ...

that I wasn't good enough. To Hell with them.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an astronaut. it was only later that I found out that women were discouraged from doing so. And here I don't even wear diapers and drive cross country to kill people.

My favorite memory ...

no comment

Why I write ...

because I can.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Jello Biafra

My best moment ...

still working on that.

My inspiration ...

my son, Ian.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Feminine Divinity

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A Paiute Woman's Dim Memory Today my palms are spirits as my fingers seek the cups of matate hollows in the granite, worn by fawn-fleshed girls as they worked manzanita fruit to paste between rocks. No manos remain, only the mountain explains the methods of women gone to sinew, who came to grind their testimonies in the memory of stone.

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