In a body

tenuous

paradoxical

absurd

Solidity disintegrates, a false comfort.

Body made partial through distance, gesture, alienation,

Barrier, shrouding body from air and eyes. Artificial skin.

Partition, preserving deep shadows. Body, sealed in plastic. Elongated gaze.

Claustrophobia, comfort. Panic punctuated by deep calm.

In a chamber, sealed in plastic, observing a body in a chamber sealed in plastic, being observed by a body in a chamber, wrapped in plastic, body observes body as a chamber, body observes body observing body.

Outside, a glimpse of the apparatus. A tube extends from sealed plastic, breaching the perimeter.

umbilical cord

a hole,

lots of holes

liminal

Orifice breaching, threatening, to destabilize.

Signify

slit

gash

wound

A prop, apropos

Artifice, deception, obsession

Playing

parts play their parts

partial parts, body parts

partial body