Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
Julia Kristeva spits on my Achilles tendon while my Adam's apple combs lice from Adrienne Rich's wigs as she gossips about my Alcock's canal when my artery of Adamkiewicz sidles up to Anne McClintock