06.17.2024

by storm

girl:
you see a girl about three years of age. cowboy boots and curly ponytail. her skirt crawls up, her pantyhose has holes at the knees, knees are dirty, dirty pantyhose from playing in dirt, dirt streaks between her fingers. sticky. she comes over handing you; a stone. “what is this?” you ask her, aware your accent might drive her away – even the shortest sentences reveals it. “a girl she says.” “oh i see, does she have a name?”. “yes, girl.” she replies. runs off leaving you the girlstone. you lay it down next to the book and read on. she returns, you hear her steps in high heeled boots before you lift your gaze from lines 

“lacan’s le trait unaire is thus the formal basis for the signifier conceived in its difference from the sign. the essay ‘subversion of the subject’, explains that ‘identification with a unary trait’ of another allows a subject to ‘relate to the other without failing to recognise her alterity and immediately reducing her to an equal.” 

she stretches out her hands, this time with dirt. dirt spilling trough her fingers, dirt has the colour of desert – “what is this?” “dirt”, she says. “oh i see, does it have a name too?”. “playground” she says