v i s [U] a l s .

What do
you do when your body becomes a wound? What do you do
when your scars
open back up again? When one day you put your hand to
your mouth and find
nothing?

— Brynne Rebele-Henry, from “Self-portrait as a broken Venus statuette,” Autobiography of a Wound

( WITH DEATH WENT MY LOVER TO ETERNITY (cw: blood) )