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Shari Caplan: Laura Mulvey on the (fe)Male Gaze

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

A bear turned to a lounging place.

Instead of unspooling story
the fe/male leans in her lack
/light against the paradox
of phallocentrism. 

Bear/er of the bloody
wound. Subject by being
object/ed. 

To exit/exist, she must thwart
the male ailment, fuck Freud.

Virgin/Vixenhood fantasies.
Ropes hissing the bedframe.
All the men I know want to do it.
Man/ipulation. 

Active/male/passive/female/active/male/passive.
Act/I’ve/male/pass/I’ve/fe/male/act/I’ve/pass/I’ve
Activate! 

How does the bearskin rug become a bear again?

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Shari Caplan

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