Ani diFranco’s Witches

Josh Davis, my former student and dear friend and poet, sent me this report from a recent Ani DiFranco concert in Saratoga, CA:

“Toward the end of the show and between songs, Ani read a new poem.  Here are the lines I remember:

    Give the witches back their brooms

    Give the weavers back their looms……

                    Women, you must bear the terror

                    of the pain we’ve been forbidding

                    with a force that isn’t kidding

                    when it rushes back unbidden.”

 Josh also says that Ani said she is reading The Alphabet Versus the Goddess–a great and important book!