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The world is round.

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I began this side of life
as infant photographer,

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focusing with the moving
middle eye, the round umbilical

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cord where it melded
into the body center

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like a vacuum sucking
in the sights.

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Not with any eye but
with skin did I see this.

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Do I remember now?

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The skin can so remember.

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This picture that I
first took of touch here

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in the studio body of birth
first photograph of feeling

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anchored by something other than
the liquid albumin world where

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I had lived from the first.

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Something round made
of me and her and him,

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something akin to one large
ballooning finger, here

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at the full lips of
my belly's button

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where I could feel the warmth
of food, milky brown thick sugar

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passing from her body's oven
into my whole wheat capsule.

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Too quick and the vacuum
cord yanked, tugged me yet

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another way and I
twist twirled around

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in my curved world
falling back asleep,

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genuflected by her soft
snaking octopus arm.

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Only one hour old and I
remember unlatching my eyes

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to see the tiny incubating
opening where I'd already

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lived for a week, the warm
stale air pouring in on me.

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Not with my mind
but with full body

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camera do I remember this,
the perfect circular opening,

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round just like the end
beginning of the cord, round

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like the camera's eye that
I would one day accidentally

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flutter inside of,
discovering silky stems

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of wildebeest poems growing
sour, sweet filigree words.

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I always return to
the glove of her body,

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the touch of her cord to my
middle, my middle to her cord,

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that opening where
I first fell in love

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with the breast of
the garment, first

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recognized what fit though I
could not yet safely wear it

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down the daylight street.

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I can't show you any
photographs of this

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to prove what I'm
telling you is true.

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I am remembering this not
with my mind but with my body.

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The body can so
remember what long ago

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left the accidental
scene of the eye.

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