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| | Goedicke, Patricia: Precious Bodily Fluids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In this poignant poetic rendition of images presented to the narrator as she watches one of her body fluids ooze into an external receptacle, the reader is treated to a vivid array of symbols brought to the poet's imagination. |
 | | The fluid is lymph, collected into a "little plastic pouch / hung on my side like a monkey." The poem is made up of run-on three line stanzas, flowing like the fluid--from color images, to visions of the sea, to associations with the aroma of fruit. |
 | | In the piece, the poet moves from the practical, everyday, meaning of wearing a foreign apparatus to collect the escaping essence of one's corporeal makeup, to sensory images of these fluids, to a final conclusion that, once external to the body, the life-sustaining liquids loose all their import. |
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