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Clinical Hands

Clinical hands The first hands to touch me were clinical hands, as you laid in twilight sleep, mother drugged against your wishes by a doctor who “knew better” than you did what was good for you and your newborn daughter. Clinical hands passed me to other clinical hands latex against my exposed and innocent skin.Continue reading “Clinical Hands”

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Posted byjanetlandisOctober 8, 2009Posted inWritingTags:birth, memories, poetry, trauma4 Comments on Clinical Hands

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