tumefy

don't shoot anymore!' / I yell like a woman / 'his body - the columns of the temple!' / 'be your age' he says / 'we shoot with sense / use your brain and think' / meanwhile the tumefied black sun / has reached the zenith / from the battlefield / there comes a smell of dead bodies of sense." Between the sigh and the rending cry, her woman's presence is a natural and generous stabilizing force, even if "Pieta" reveals the abyss of pain on which stability and generosity were built: in the treacherous light "I don't know what it is I hold in my lap: / a babe, an old man?

Jonathan Young Brown remarked that every surgeon who ever performed circumcision "has doubtless been struck with the fact, that almost invariably after the operation, the loose connective tissue lying between the reamining connective mucous and skin surfaces, become suddenly edematous, greatly swollen and occasionally almost tumefied. This condition delays or destroys union by the first intention, disfigures the part and renders the patient very uncomfortable." Sounding a theme that appears time and time again, Henry Simes wrote that as safe as circumcision was, there were nonetheless occasional problems.