Feminine Gospels: A04

"If I ever have a daughter

the first thing I will

teach her to love 

is the word 'no'"

Can be linked to 'The Light Gatherer' and 'The Chord'

'Words make me starve

myself until you could

see them all'

Could be linked to 'The Diet' 

'Silence has always been

my loudest scream'

Could be linked to 'Loud'

'...collect words and polish them 

up until they shine like

starlight in your palm...'

Could be linked to 'A Dreaming Week' and 'Gambler'

'We do our best, we queens,

we mothers, we mothers

of queens.'

Could be linked to 'The Long Queen'

'It's amber eyes, holding

their pupils like flies.'

Could be linked to 'The Light Gatherer'

'I said to Him - something about

that chimpanzee over there

reminds me of you'

Could be linked to 'Sub'

'The lady says do this. 

Harder.

The lady says do this.

Faster.'

Could be linked to 'Beautiful'

'...kept my head down,

did my work...'
Could be linked to 'Work'

'I had wept for a night 

and a day over my 

loss.'

Could be linked to 'Death and the Moon'

'You must be a photograph,

not a poem.'

Could be linked to 'White Writing'

'Who taught you to 

write in blood on 

my back?'

Could be linked to 'The Map Woman'

'Nobody can

legislate love.'

Could be linked to 'White Writing'

'I have mapped you

with my naked eye.'

Could be linked to 'The Map Woman'

'You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but I was

not made with a fire in my belly

so I could be put out.'

Could be linked to 'Loud'

'The thing about writing is I can't

tell if it's healing or

destroying.'

Could be linked to 'A Dreaming Week' or 'Gambler'

'...your body is a museum ofnatural

disasters can you grasp how stunning

that is...'

Could be linked to 'The Map Woman' or 'White Writing'

'Our backs tell stories

no books have the spine

to carry.'

Could be linked to 'The Map Woman'