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“of spatial magnitude, or of the extension of a body in the several dimensions of space”
“Growth involves the same concepts of magnitude and direction [as]… the ‘dimension’ of Time”
—D'Arcy Wentworth
Thompson
Monday, here am I, mortal
machine, clicking in the toothed
metal of time, altricial (born naked and nearly
blind). The traveling bag of my
existence (left lung
slightly smaller to accommo-
date the heart) is having a conversation
with itself (medulla
talking to shin). Your brain too
is having a conversation with the body.
Heart walks down the street, Boston
attached to [a] woman / man / spring day / lovely
in the semilunar valves of the heart
sings
what will the baby be shaped like?
will she come out round with a red
rose tattoo?
with wing of the ilium?
Body said, What?
will she come out innominate
with many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava
Body said, What?
——bed she built——
when she lies down when she arises
from the placenta’s vascular sheets
touching all the quantum fields she walked through to
greet me
pools of intricate color collect on the face
heart was
found asymmetrically
locked in the chest You can’t make it
turn round not around
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pierce the
porous skin of
a minute see time bleed out
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