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19 corals. “Silently we are cementing our lives / As a coral reef is built / Blossoming
into iridescence / Providing homes for wandering Angel fish / and other bits of
beauty.” Rita Mae Brown. 1974. The Hand that Cradles the Rock, p. 38.
20 amphibians. “Lesbians have become cultural amphibians.” Susan Hawthorne,
Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer (Eds.). 1997. Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love
and Other Contemporary Lesbian Writings, p. x. A reference to the dual cultural life
lived by lesbians. Many lesbians live a multiple cultural life, inhabiting a variety of
cultural domains. Janice Raymond’s “two sights-seeing” reflects a similar concept.
See Janice Raymond. 1986. A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female
Affection, pp. 203-241.
21 white horses. Finola Moorhead, writes of Ursula, the surfer: “the sea is her great
mirror. The sea is as she is inside, behind the shell of appearance, beyond the
unopened door of her hymen.” Remember the Tarantella, 1987, pp. 16-17. Ursula is
probably the first lesbian surfer in Australian literature. Lesbian sexuality has
often been linked with horse riding. Riding the white horses of the surf is simply
a new variation on an old theme.
22 mouth. The Greek word for mouth “stoma” (Gr. µ) refers to the mouth and
lips, as well as to the vagina. For lesbians, the mouth has a multidimensional
importance as the site of both speech and sexual desire.
23 a figure on a ship’s deck. It was on a ship’s deck near Corfu that H.D. had a vision
which was to influence her poetry for many years. See H.D.’s Tribute to Freud
(1974).
24 nautilus. “A pink chambered nautilus / Her womb whispers songs of the sea /
Oh, yes / Say yes / And come make love with me.” Rita Mae Brown. 1973.
Songs to a Handsome Woman, p. 19. Suzanne Bellamy, an Australian porcelain
artist began in the late 1970s to make vulval figurines in the shapes of shells.
Her work is displayed in lesbian households around the country, as well as in
collections elsewhere.