Saturday, December 04, 2004

Poison (page 32) by Kathryn Harrison

".... but how light might feel were it to enter you, were flesh to become literate in senses other than touch.

And of course flesh does, it does--flesh learns everything.
Blood flows toward consciousness,
bones apprentice themselves,
a body's very skin sets itself a course of study.
The only truths worth knowing,
the only ones we remember,
are those we learn by the flesh."

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