The remaining questions

you may ask about deformed structure: a white root onion bulb behind eyes, or boggy green-grape bulging under knuckles, or the green sprouts shooting from the carina, or the bifurcation of open-lung shaped as a bird's breastbone: sensual, white, snowy, open paths: the things that remind us of the first cut in surgery, or me of his legs apart in the evening; you may ask about the paper-mache of our environment mapped on the undressed body: a raspberry rash or the leaky shimmer of virus-vesicles nailed newly, painfully, on her back as new shingles for the roof of her chest; or the coracoid: the raven's beak and the writing desk of shoulder tissue where it perches, or the way the sella turcica sits precariously atop the equine mind; the lunate: that deep, slow, concave dimple-bone poised in the hands of our root-skinned darlings as they bath us and promise...
Source: Medical Humanities - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tags: Poetry and prose Source Type: research