I used to see old women in Chinatown
who walked with a slow top heavy sway.
I thought they had cerebral palsy. There's always a stance you end up taking about women in forms of bondage. Every stance becomes sort of annoying. You already know the angles.
& about a secret language (nu shu) that only women spoke
and wrote for a thousand years.
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we are lucky, someways, to
have our hearts
broken by a novel, and not our feet
broken by our mothers.
no words come to describe the photos
i want to say that it is great
you found them but that they,
themselves, are not.
you know it's messed up that these pictures are around, but this is the peak of perfection on its own merits/or by its own standards? i can't help staring at them, especially the second picture. brutal love.
i got the impression that the naked feet weren't supposed to be seen, so it's sad looking at them because the women would have been proud of their accomplishments. although, they sat for the camera. or maybe they didn't have a choice.
i wonder if anyone in china felt like the communists came in to over-correct the yin/yang situation, replacing too much masculine with too much feminine, tall trauma wave back to the soil. but here i have no idea.
sue i am glad we tried book club, then scrabble club, then club club, then back to you lending me the awesome books you read.
perfect.
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