ISSN 1757-8515
Breast Cancer Surgeon
Heather Cameron
Cite this article as: BJMP 2020;13(1):a008
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The reverence with which
You lay your scalpel
Upon my skin
Is reminiscent of a lover
From long ago.
You cut delicately, assuredly
Your blade tracing
A predetermined line
And enter my body
Just as he did.
I signed consent forms
For your loving invasion.
What choice had I?
He took my clasp upon
His hips as permission.
What choice had he?
My body has been laid
Open by the knives of
Lovers and surgeons alike.
Scars chosen/unchosen,
Fade red into ochre lines.
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Acknowledgements I acknowledge my PhD Supervisor, Prof David McCooey, School of Communication & Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, Locked Bag 20000, Geelong 3220, AUSTRALIA Competing Interests None declared Author Details Heather Cameron, PhD Candidate, MA App Sci, Grad Dip Prof Writing, BA, Dip Teaching, School of Communication & Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, Locked Bag 20000, Geelong 3220, AUSTRALIA CORRESPONDENCE: Heather Cameron, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, Locked Bag 20000, Geelong 3220, AUSTRALIA Email: hcameron@deakin.edu.au |
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