Measured and pinned

by Rebecca Dempsey

 
Scans searched. Locked on
looking clear through
to the other side. Echoes
detected shadows. Patterns
traced, and vanished
under interpretation.
Currents passed through.
Reverberations of blood
rushed through limbs
to extremities. Recorded.
Described. Ascribed.
Machines peered through
flesh, scoured for clues,
in cells living and dividing,
made up of atoms, made up
of somethings close to
nothing. Parts prodded,
arranged, examined.
Dismissed after identification.
A close call. Shuddering
in a cold change room, 
felt, yes, but I wasn’t seen.
I wasn’t there at all.

 
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Rebecca Dempsey’s recent works have featured in Streetcake Magazine and Unstamatic. Rebecca lives in Melbourne / Naarm, and can be found at WritingBec.com, where amongst other things, she sometimes contemplates the creative traits she inherited from her foremothers.