Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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creates the most original retail scaffold
for bright pink, green and yellow
girls’ dresses. In this world of multiple
zones time is never in the same place.
Centuries contained in a single gaze.
Metal-wheeled carts front shops with
internet access; carved stone dogs
guard Coca-Cola; saris and cigarettes
are sold by the same man.
At the station the shoeshiners,
grounded by broken limbs,
delight in false repairs.
But it’s the thirsty cows who have
the last say, tethered close
they low and drink
one another’s urine
beside the river
refracting oceanic light.
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In Agra, I hope I have left behind
the shuddering tears of anger.