Denise Riley, "A note on sex and 'the reclaiming of language'"

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

A NOTE ON SEX AND 'THE RECLAIMING OF LANGUAGE'

The Savage is flying back home from the New Country
in native-style dress with a baggage of sensibility
to gaze on the ancestral plains with the myths thought up
and dreamed in her kitchen as guides

                                       She will be discovered
as meaning is flocking densely around the words seeking a way
any way in between the gaps, like a fertilisation

                                       The work is
e.g. to write 'she' and for that to be a statement
of fact only and not a strong image
of everything which is not-you, which sees you

The new land is colonised, though its prospects are empty

The Savage weeps as landing at the airport
she is asked to buy wood carvings, which represent herself


DENISE RILEY