Natural Blood
I wandered forth into the world with
nothing, and with a few very transparent epithelium scales
I will go out of it; but not before I have drawn blood.
And like the slain that lie in the grass, being fallen
asleep, accidentally disclose that they had borne children
whose eyes never opened I would possess a lesser place,
and drive out the air, and fall upon the motion of those
things, which being alive, do leap with violence to their
former figure and vanish without speaking. I would come to
that substance whose nature it is to move, whose limbs
should start spasmodically from the flourish of a whip
after having been subject to snapping motions which
resemble the bitings of a dog. And if the animal sleeps
with it eyes and mouth half open, some evolution of
transformed nebulae will favour a certain range of
resolving powers natural to animal bodies, and so arranged
that the access to air is limited, only so much as to
possess the living principle. A very small quantity of
blood will preserve this harmony a great deal more. Latent
sympathies are aroused, and the mind takes cognisance of
them. And being so carefully fastened up with clusters of
velvet ribbon it gives a sudden jerk, by which the heart
is erected and raises itself up into a point, and strikes
the chest with more than normal force.
Titles taken from the book, Natural Blood.
1. I fell upon the wound, and all the blood gushed with
violence
into the ruins and cripples of the womb
2. Unravelling my mittens while the ladies look on
3. A female may be divided, cut up, and reduced to
insensible parts
4. Fatal tendency to die
5. God is sometimes kinetic
6. Let her occupy herself a little with me
7. Natural blood
8. In her secret retirements, she had men among the
horrors