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.