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  Ovarian-cyst Eulogy

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ

  not all women are ghosts*. This truth I know, attested to by precariously splitting ganglions, the fast-decaying gurgles of ancient seas, and trenches riven through wide deserts of perfectly pale skin. My hands mutate like butterflies. A simple mislaid chromosome, fathering large feet...
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  Helios/Hephaestus

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ

  You told me once about the divinity that drips from your fingertips like so many oozings of sap slipping out from ages of wounded bark; flesh divided and held open with nails, keratin and dull, warm steel. My mother believed in predestination, in perfect births and rebirths––god stu...
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  Apoptosis/Anorexia

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ

  Somewhere in the furrows of pink and gray flesh, nestled between delicate arches of pelvis, in what was supposed to be bowels and pulsating warmth, lies the wish for chemotherapy. The old images of skull-white sundresses glimmering with the glory of summer days in the world of Perfect Thigh...
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  love is an entropic process

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ

  Strange now, to think of you amidst this aftermath of scattered atoms and queer cells, this apocalypse, the collision of bone and skin, all gnashing and trembling and brimming with heat left over from the creation of our aching, leaking universe. Strange to remember those clarion eyes and fi...
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  Poisson d'Or

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ
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  Robin Goodfellow

  

  By fffnoof, East Brunswick, NJ