Saturday 9 December 2017

The Aesthetics of Bones

The Aesthetics of Bones

After the surgery
the doctor came.

I was still groggy
as I saw his beaming face and heard him say,
"Your operation was beautiful!"
And even under the fading etheric state I thought,
"What a horrible thing for a doctor to say!"

Two days later he showed me,
with a weird touch of pride, I should say,
my skeleton of the bones which he had set right,
my shoulders and collar-bone all in place.

He had brought a perfection to the broken down frame;
a rather marvelous job, I must say.
And I smiled secretly at my fear
of seeing what lay beneath my skin,
the exquisite beauty of sheer bones.

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