[Woman with Antlers]

by Alice Notley

Alice Notley

Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman in black against black
lace, black-headed deer woman, Lady of the mountains whose antlers melt
into lace. Lady of the mountains, emerges from my right side and all the
lacy scars there, why is she a deer? Because l'm not anthropomorphic, soul
of the mountain night. This is my echo from before, from what I had made
for you vocally, and from before we acceded to the time line never like lace.
Lady the mountain middle of no spatial universe. I have the antlers she says
which extend from the deer head in the middle of our echo. Lady of Wild
Animals, for whom the animals return, the deer with the heart or breath
line, through the mouth to the center echoing. Do you hear the words of the
conquerors or do you hear the voices of deer? echoes, can you find a center
in an echo? I'm finding, with the finder, the antlers paths leading from my
head. I am the center of it, the center of the lady.





Last updated March 12, 2023