dotlit: 'The Practice of Inverting the Human Heart'

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	The Practice of Inverting the Human Heart Alison Eastley


	Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. ...Do it again. - Morticia Addams		1

	Imagine seventy-two names inscribed upon the petals of a sunflower		2

	or the four lettered Name of God arranged within the inverted human heart		3

	so that everything is inside out or upside down and always exposed		4

	like the time you held me, tears streaming immaterial messages so full		5

	of meaning, I thought I would never need to talk as I did before		6

	incoherency made it impossible to describe how our tongues paused		7

	inside that kiss, how our mouths press together but nothing is airtight.		8