The Monkey Heart [1]
27 Jun 2012 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackOn Sunday, while sitting above the waves, these (unedited) lines occurred to me:
She no longer had a heart; it lay deep beneath the ocean waves. She had not forgotten her heart, but she would no longer recognize it, now encrusted with white coral, its atria home to ribbonfish.
Then, on Monday, I had a cyst removed from my inner thigh, a cyst I always called my "egg" for the size and shape it had beneath my flesh. But when the surgeon cut it out and held it up to show me (yes, I asked to see it), "A heart!" I exclaimed to myself. "It looks just like a monkey heart."[2]
The one thing has nothing to do with the other, but it is odd how our minds work and give us ideas, images, or snippets that resound with us across days or weeks in totally different contexts.
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[1] Yes, I know that is not a monkey in my icon; it's a maki (lemur) from Mayotte, but it is the closet thing I have. :P
[2] I actually don't know what a monkey heart looks like.
[3] Yes, I know there is no 3 above, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frigg, you are not getting a picture of the incision. Just because J shared his doesn't mean I have to. :P
[4]khiemtran the prostetic spit testicles will be another operation. :P
She no longer had a heart; it lay deep beneath the ocean waves. She had not forgotten her heart, but she would no longer recognize it, now encrusted with white coral, its atria home to ribbonfish.
Then, on Monday, I had a cyst removed from my inner thigh, a cyst I always called my "egg" for the size and shape it had beneath my flesh. But when the surgeon cut it out and held it up to show me (yes, I asked to see it), "A heart!" I exclaimed to myself. "It looks just like a monkey heart."[2]
The one thing has nothing to do with the other, but it is odd how our minds work and give us ideas, images, or snippets that resound with us across days or weeks in totally different contexts.
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[1] Yes, I know that is not a monkey in my icon; it's a maki (lemur) from Mayotte, but it is the closet thing I have. :P
[2] I actually don't know what a monkey heart looks like.
[3] Yes, I know there is no 3 above, but
frigg, you are not getting a picture of the incision. Just because J shared his doesn't mean I have to. :P[4]
khiemtran the prostetic spit testicles will be another operation. :P![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 27 Jun 2012 09:12 pm (UTC)Are you going to send your monkey heart down into the sea to make a home for ribbonfish?
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 29 Jun 2012 10:33 am (UTC)_____
* That is such an icky word, i think.
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 08:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 10:55 am (UTC)Glad the cyst is taken care of, it's nice when these things are over, monkey hearts not withstanding ;p
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 08:30 pm (UTC)