{"id":508,"date":"2020-07-20T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=508"},"modified":"2020-08-12T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:32:52","slug":"what-do-46-pages-the-beatles-and-france-all-have-in-common-the-queen-of-hearts-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/20\/what-do-46-pages-the-beatles-and-france-all-have-in-common-the-queen-of-hearts-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What do 46 pages, the Beatles, and France all have in common? The Queen of Hearts said&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-133-1338773_alice-in-wonderland-queen-of-hearts-flamingo-clipart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-133-1338773_alice-in-wonderland-queen-of-hearts-flamingo-clipart-1.jpg 880w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-133-1338773_alice-in-wonderland-queen-of-hearts-flamingo-clipart-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-133-1338773_alice-in-wonderland-queen-of-hearts-flamingo-clipart-1-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-133-1338773_alice-in-wonderland-queen-of-hearts-flamingo-clipart-1-388x270.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Feathers%20in%20Their%20Fists.m4a?_t=1597252066\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Feathers in Their Fists<\/em><\/strong><br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2020<br>\u00a0<br>They are vain and much older than the trees<br>in heightened shadows skipping \u2018round the sun<br>they will not grovel, fixed on bended knees\u2026<br>their grace grows grateful only by degrees<br>and only when their battles have been won.<br>\u00a0<br>The Archer nocks her arrow to unloose<br>~ most careful not to harm or break the vane<br>the hangman slips a hanged man from his noose<br>and warrior weary wonders at the truce<br>where warriors march against the fields of thane.<br>\u00a0<br>The Archer holds aloft her bow of yew<br>and gathers feathers stronger than their swords.<br>The young ones build their nests and walls of dew<br>and those are all the walls they ever knew ~<br>and from those nests surge sweet harmonic chords.<br>\u00a0<br>Now, bolder generations wander by<br>and, bitter, watch their parents lose the prize ~<br>watch schemes and frailties smother with a sigh<br>and question how those efforts (codified)<br>could choke, alone, from bullied cursed lies.<br>\u00a0<br>And though it\u2019s long and long ago gone past,<br>again, the young ones hold a nimble pen<br>their feathers cut more ably than the last<br>vain young ones (marching, marching out) amassed:<br>armed writers wield against the thanes, again.<br>\u00a0<br>Yes, deeper than the swords, their feathers cleft.<br>They know the message written (not in vain).<br>They whisper Code.\u00a0 They understand the theft.<br>So many Lights flash off and on, bereft ~<br>lost Liberties; dead amber fields of grain.<br>\u00a0<br>With fire in your Spirit<br>you hold your flames aloft<br>Walk On, Bright Tribe.<br>Walk soft.<br>\u00a0<br>March to your bold tune.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.off with their heads! 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