Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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we line the shelves of our homes with poetry we speak of
your jade body 15 your limbs loosening 16 and the longing
which afflicts us when love ends
the silence is filled by the tremulous note of a bone flute
the sound of a glass singing at the touch of a finger the
whistle from the mouth of a woman who knows she can
whistle up symphonies if need be 17
the gymnasium is a place where we can remain day in day
out we can sleep there some of us sleep alone restless for
a lover singing songs 18 of loss with black swans some
sleep dreaming of azalea touch dreaming of impossible
cities of lives not yet lived we roam the world’s cities from
Sydney to Venice Tokyo Prague San Francisco Varanasi
Suva Shanghai and Firenze where two women dream of a
third holding an ancient rose 19 anywhere there are traces
some of us lie in the arms of lovers who no longer love us
or entwined in love like an Indian miniature from
Rajasthan 20 some of us sleep from sheer exhaustion
the mornings are bright filled with the scent of women
gathering flowers by the river 21 it’s our favourite season it
could be the slow waking of a winter’s day with muffled
sounds and woodsmoke in the air or the hot north wind of