Gabrielle Gribbin
Bachelardian Reverie #1
Winter qt. wk.5
Word count:100
“Reverie Prompt: pp 38-39, 47 Create your own reverie on the engendering of words in response to Bachelard’s reverie: “Look out for the flamboires, little girl! Look out for the flambettes, booby!” In your experience does a romance language such as French do a “great service” by being a “passionate language” that has not wanted to preserve a neuter gender, but rather multiplies occasions for choosing/coupling? What words, for you, “love each other?” Can you create a reverie to demonstrate words that, for you, have sexes re: the passion of your current field study?”
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Oh, Fluttering feet (m. pies), bounding with ease as the
hardened ground waits to lick fallen limbs.
How the flick of the wrist may will you to come nearer
or keep your distance.
An arched swaying of lifted arms
propels my core forward as the ever fluxing gate of
flexed calves (m.terneros) and thighs (m. muslos)
send my spine (f. espina) a-tingle passing one
another to the rhythm of my breath (f. respiracion), my
thought.
Weight shifts as a halt to steps is forced, a need for
balance leaves mind (f. mente) focused dictating each
part of me to hush.