Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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mani padme aum clouds wrap themselves around us the
peaks as sharp as a knife edge keen as a blade surly as any
city gurl 7 we live in hermitages painted red wolves snow
leopards prowl when food is scarce we live among
women the days of our lives spent in Beguinages 8 in
convents in monasteries in abbeys in nunneries in houses
of caritas we are sisters of mercy we are sisters of charity 9
we are sisters to one another
some of us have become priests ministers rabbis
celebrants mystics spiritual leaders and founders of
religions it is harder to know whether we have ever been
popes 10
we also run laugh dance sing we eat in the refectory 11
some of us have taken a vow of silence some of us
persecute ourselves with flagellation hairshirts knives
cords to show our passion some have seen visions a
winged woman 12 in scarlet and purple the mother of
harlots of lesbians of loose women of carnal lust a friend
of the lion the dragon the eagle but not of the lamb
we are fallen Babylon is fallen is fallen 13 is fallen we anoint
our bodies with oil we anoint our heads with oil
there are some who work with the sick and the poor they
come for refuge bruised or their bodies covered in vile