Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. – Judith Butler, Imitation & Gender Insubordination

Prop. 1: I am a woman.

O glory, the creative nothing. There is nothing at the heart of things; things are the heart. We heartbeat timelives, the solarsystem beckons aiesthesis, lo holyoneholyone. The inner experience of nothing everythings the nothing echoing the everything.

A woman is a creative nothing. A woman is Unique. Uniquing Uniques womanhood. There is nothing at the center, but everything emerges from it. The hole at the heart of womanhood that is also poetry.

Prop. 2: I woman.

Sing, thing-that-I-am. I gleam graceful, my morningflower. Who? Enter-here, there-again. My faerie faith, the land. I woman place, my placeless womanhood, that worlding that guilds our narration. We mythology woman, I repeat and transform. Echomeaning meaningsecho.

There is no woman; there is womaning. To woman is to unfold the nothing by creating. It is a gender-ing that lacks the whole, yet is whole, precisely because it is never-ending. Womaning womans a world.

Prop. 3: I woman as the woman I am.

We delicate, dove-endowed indexical. I co-doubt the cogito, the extended I I dwell in, perduring. I am here, at one part of my soul, the unfolding of my life. Soulwork, this womaning, orienting-leaning-futuring. Creating-begetting-proceeding. She.

There is no distinction between One and Many. The One manys the One that I am, the Many I One in manying. I repeat certain pasts and transform certain futures. Intending-attending-meaning. I signify woman in womaning, to me as the interior dwelling, to the world in my expressing.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. – Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

Image: Heart by [ a y s h ] (2022)