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“We gather as we always have: Naomi and Ruth, Aphrodite and Helen, Eve and her lioness. We are good girls. Mothers and dancers and counselors. We are wicked too, but we won't tell you this. Instead we arrange plates of bread and fruit, slip into the center of each other. Find our childhoods, our varied pleasures, the aged and blistered scars. We are half drunk, half destroyed. Nothing left but blood and bone. Still we surface— fold into each other like paper cranes. Her, like a long-lost lover. Her, a cool and healing balm.” — Kate Baer
We gather as we always have: Naomi and
Ruth, Aphrodite and Helen, Eve and her
lioness. We are good girls. Mothers and
dancers and counselors. We are wicked
too, but we won't tell you this. Instead
we arrange plates of bread and fruit, slip
into the center of each other. Find our
childhoods, our varied pleasures, the aged
and blistered scars.
We are half drunk, half destroyed. Nothing
left but blood and bone. Still we surface—
fold into each other like paper cranes. Her,
like a long-lost lover. Her, a cool and
healing balm.