the phoenix-memories

                            The anatomist alone is assigned a specific role – he is forced in his daily work to reject the taboos and convictions that people have about death and the
                            dead. I myself am not controversial, but my exhibitions are, because I am asking viewers to transcend their fundamental beliefs and convictions about
                            our joint and inescapable fate.
                            –– Dr. Gunther von Hagens

                            mankind spliced: snowden’s secret revealed & coated in plastic.
                            intestines whispering
                            garbage,
                                             garbage.
                            searching for the missing piece,
                            the hidden twenty-one grams.
                            cross-sections of mortality.
                            there is a maze inside all of us,
                            a carbon-based labyrinth of particles & chemicals.
                            trap doors & the sphincter's riddle:
                            what stands on display, opened wide, a window into flesh and plastic?