# 8 “Answering” Magdalena Ball’s
poem (in response to Angela Gardner) … and thinking both of Louise Bourgeois and the Native
American myth of Spider Woman
SILENCEWEB
In full view its conspicuous
legs
plus an obvious fact at its core
as if logocentric dualist dichotomy
was all swallowed
by a gynocentric commitment to
stillness…
In the shape of a body what truth to draw
and what do we aim at what do we want to see before telling
is it a body or is it truth
the truth of a body
a body of truth
in the shape of a chest in the
shape of breast a reconstructed
constellation
made of potential sounds
a score to read on the lines
of breath a chant to be pressed by the lips
they know that singing is no
saying
that silence is made for Spider
to weave while
spinning without defining
polarities
without avoiding emptiness
without seeking words
but four syllables she said
then something lopsided:
silenceweb
could be enough
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