SIT AND PLAY IN THE WATERS...(Tauchgang in die Biomythography von Audre Lorde)

"Prologue

I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way earth does in hills and peaks.

I would like to enter a woman the way any man can, and to entered - to leave and to be left - to be hot and hard and soft all at the same time in the cause of my loving. I would lkie to drive forward and at other times to rest or be driven. When I sit and play in the waters of my bath I love to fee the deep inside parts of me, sliding and folded and tender and deep. Other times I like to fantasize the core of ti, my pearl, a protruding part of me, hard and sensitive and vulnerable in a different way.

I have felt the age-old triangle of mother father child, with `i´ at its eternal core, elongate and flatten out into the elegantly strong triad of grandmother mother daughter, with the ´I´ moving back and forth flouring in either or both directions as needed.

Woman forever. My body, al living representation of ohter life older longer wiser. The mountains and valleys, trees and rocks. Sand and flowers and water and stone. Made in earth."

(Audre Lorde: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, kindle edition € 9,54)