50 WORDS

Taboo Means Forbidden

Thrifty words 50 #37: Taboo

Sacred to me is the trill of the wood thrush the hop of the frog the prey eaten by the wolf

Taboo means forbidden Do not touch

Too sacred or profane like menstrual blood and tears that men fear worse than death.

Mary is what they did to the Goddess

Loving these Thrifty Word Challenges and writing for The Bad Influence.

Karen’s goals for 2021 include finishing her MFA thesis and dressing like a Star Trek alien from a utopian planet. Her Creative Nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Brevity, NPR’s The New Normal, Straw Dog Writer’s Guild Pandemic Poetry and Prose, Multiplicity and Voices of the Valley Anthology.