Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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making rosettes embroidering pillowslips damask table
cloths and napkins occasionally they combine forces to
make tapestries rugs or quilts
Dorothy Perkins and Mrs Van Rossem 5 tell one another
stories there is a story they tell that the rosette of a nearby
cathedral was built entirely by a team of women they
whisper their names they were seven sisters daughters of
a seventh daughter they called them the Danae they say
that among them was a dusky beauty one of an assembly
of beauties one called Penelope 6 they say it was she who
designed the window’s florets
we cast a golden rose on Sumerian jewellery and in Crete
we confuse the archaeologists by restoring the damaged
fresco with a six-petalled rose of course we know there are
five petals five fingers but they thought we had created a
fiction if it takes our fancy we still paint images of ancient
roses fictions of our inventiveness
we watch our gardens grow when we fall in love we give
the beloved roses 7 when she dies the roses wreathe her or
are laid upon her grave we dance in circles singing ring-aring
o’ roses 8 a pocketful of posies ah-tishoo ah-tishoo we
all fall down