Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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amazons Margaret Bhadravati Boudicca Cowslip Sybilla 8
or just plain old Cow 9 then there’s Bessie the flying cow
the cow who jumped over the moon 10 in a paroxysm of
pleasure
it’s a riparian existence Saraswati 11 flowing beneath us
another underground world invisible like us generating
surface flow petals thrown into the water swirl and spin
eddying downstream
ducks geese and wet hens 12 live in our coops they guard
us and befriend us each day we gather eggs waiting and
listening for the crowing which heralds the newest egg the
newest world my best friends are ducks Radclyffe and
Alice I follow mother goose around the yard with her
thirteen goslings in train only eleven return I go in search
of the missing two find them in fence holes next to the
paddock nearby in the wetlands red-beaked black swans 13
stretch their legs as they step on to the muddy water’s
edge further north the cassowary’s blue head bobs in and
out of sight the mother lays the egg but then dispenses
child care to the males’ wing
in the parched chook run turkeys gobble their throats
wobbling swallowing words gobbling 14 half words
the one we call Monkey runs tree-climbing workshops 15
she works in the trees and has learnt to spread her weight