- lithopedion: an italian woman without ever knowing herself to
be pregnant carried for thirtysix years a dead baby, which gradually was
fossilized and eventually born as a stone. ovarian cysts have been found
in which were grown one hundred and fifty eight teeth, some bones, some
skin and sebacious matter.
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- some are attracted to stones
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- as yet in simple darkness
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- in other countries such places have ruins
- foundlings hatched
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- salted away in a mother
- the crystallined o
- where light never is
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- waits
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- while she turns to earth around it
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- at last the right element
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- what happened now would not be the doorway
but simply entrance
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- swimming through continental rock
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- as butterflies hitting the surface become fish and continue
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- it is about penetration
a holy thrill
- generating the old stories
a joy more than religion
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