Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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the cupola floats like a giant balloon blooming behind the
buildings under the dome voices rise billowing clouds of
sound waft in the great space above the hatted heads 17
in the square in front of the cathedral the art of daily life
proceeds some play politics and the arts annually we
indulge in a masked abandon 18 we know one another only
by our gait our hands our body shape for our faces have
been covered with masks of all kinds masks carved from
wood moulded with plaster masks decorated with paints
of cerise turquoise and tangerine with coloured feathers
flowers in season and ribbons streaming in the wind like
cobras swaying to the sounds of an Indian flute
green tendrils poke between cobblestones in spring a wall
is covered in bougainvillea 19 my lover and I kiss under
those walls whether covered in climbing roses or
cultivated creepers just as others have kissed beneath the
purple spills of Sissinghurst 20 or in some ancient time
beneath the hanging gardens of Babylon there we find
paradise 21 there we lose it