Dana Guthrie Martin
Parasitic Cloaking
—for B.C.
What we hide:
cotyledons villi intervillous spaces
What was empty in you
fills with your blood
decidua basalis chorion frondosum:
nicotine, opiods, alcohol, birth defects
What we can’t use, you must eat
or carry until it rots and falls off
placenta accreta how it clings
The extraction must be manual
and leave no traces
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