Notes on a 39-year-old Body
Most internal organs jiggle and glow and are rosy
pink. The ovary is dull and gray. . . It is scarred
and pitted, for each cycle of ovulation leaves behind
a white blemish where
an egg follicle has been emptied of its contents.
The older the woman, the more
scarred her pair of ovaries will be. . . .
Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate
Geography
She was always planning out her own development,
desiring her own perfection, observing
her own progress.
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
in the dull
cycle
[o]f desiring
*
[d]ress[ed] in
[my] own white
[l]ull
*
[I] always plann[ed] [to] be
content
*
Most
foll[y]
[h]olds
*
or is [s]low
[to] empt[y]
*
internal ros[es] glow
pink and
red here
an[d] the[re]
*
in [s]low
ink
[I]
white[n]
