Private Rituals
![Female silhouette, outside in mountain pose.](https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2017/may/female-silhouette-pixabay.jpg)
between landscape and the female body:
earth sand stones plants flowers blood
a silhouette
digging
molding
carving
space
visible & tactile
between the body and the land:
one obsessive act
female force
after-image
within the womb
optical indexes
memory-traces
ancient stone circles
individual desires
splendid imperative
like Cézanne’s apples –
satisfied not static
subjective earth
what desire