Warrior-Goddess Jane Revolves Alluringly in the Cosmos of Our Dreams: For John Hall, who asked why I had put Barbarella on my book cover

 

Warrior-Goddess Jane Revolves Alluringly

in the Cosmos of Our Dreams

For John Hall, who asked why I had

put Barbarella on my book cover

 

she is

like he

—as it turns out—a

extraordinarily multifaceted

 

both sex object

and warrior queen

goddess in the flesh

 

even at 82

perhaps

especially

as a woman

of a certain age

 

a fire in her

that a lifetime

of dealing with

jack-offs

& sexist underestimation

failed to quench

 

pure perfection

ideal of womanhood

turning over & over

& over in the void

 

arousing us

to change

stimulating us

to become

better men