Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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It helped her unravel the birdsong
She heard them as they sang
witness to her Victorian violations
Their song the same as on the day
when Persephone was raped
and Zeus couldn’t care less
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On the days when she knew Greek
on these days she thought of Thoby
who was never too young
to learn Greek
on these days she understood
the bruising metaphors of Aeschylus
the tragedies of the Greek-speaking nightingale
of Antigone, the ecstacies of Agave
the songs of Sappho
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There was a moment on a boat
when the light played just so