Text/ile II
Mary responded,
“I will teach you about what is hidden from you.” And she began to speak these words to them.
—The Gospel of Mary, 6:3–4
dear mary metonym of mine to mind *mary *mari *mare *mere Magdalene or mother not as Abuelita dreams of you holy beloved symbol of self-sacrifice not submissive as the cult of the virgin does not belong to me having queered mother mary i
narrate beyond disciples trans- migrating into being mary y maría magdalena y mujer altogether to become marion apparition or reina de mexico facing sangro de cristo mountains mononymous with mary’s sin imagine the narrator trans
elations steeped in politics in each interpretation meaning whorish or humiliated sinner or sorrow/er archetypal womxn revisioned something mythic as sound dissolving into las canciones que dije llorar como magdalena luminously written first apostle
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