How Women Created Men Myth: Dark

How Women Created Men Myth:
Dark-skinned women with amber eyes were the first. Las mujeres dreamt of men and built them
out of clay and twigs, los hombres son bonitos smelled like earth. Los ellos resisted las mujeres’
chi-chis as long as they could, until por la noche, todo la gente tumbled into lust. Their body heat
melted the rocks beneath them and turned flesh and bones into lava. The ground shook and
rocked; large manzanas toppled from trees. The serpent was knocked senseless, while the women
laughed until they peed.
A storyteller for over twenty years, Lana Aragón Fatula is the author of, Crazy Chicana In
Catholic City, Ghost Road Press 2009. Her poems appear in anthologies: Open Windows III,
Ghost Road Press 2008; Road Trance Volume 9, Southern Colorado Women's Poetry Series
2009. Literary Magazines: Pilgrimage 2010; El Tecolote Vol. 40 No. 15 San Francisco 2010;
Tempered Steel Literary Magazine, 2009; The Hungry Eye Literary Magazine, 2008-2007;
Hispanic Cultural Experience, 2006, 2007, 2008. She is a three time winner of the Southern
Colorado Women's Poetry Competition, and her screenplay Peaceful Sleep (co-written with
Davon Johnson) was selected for the 2007 Global Arts Film Festival in Los Angeles.