Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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Hystory
The roses are in bloom. They are red and cool
and have a smell that makes me remember
my mother cutting stems of red roses.
Cutting red roses
climbing the legs of the tankstand.
Mother. Roses. For how many millennia have these
images coalesced —in my rose-wet cave,
writes Adrienne Rich. 1
Millennia ago women drew signs on walls in caves.
Signs resembling the leaves of roses doubling as vulvas.
Or stones, egg-shaped with a flowerbud
vulva engraved on one side.
What does woman want asks the Freud who wrote
Totem and Taboo and didn't think to include mothers
in his scheme of things. He seems to have a problem
with the mother. Is it womb envy
Is it that he wants to be an hysteric
Wants access to that mysterious state
that is specific to women What he could
do with a floating womb!
1 Rich, Adrienne. 1978. “Twenty-One Love Poems” in The Dream of a Common
Language: Poems 1974-1977.