by Cynthia Bernard -1- Guerrilla Warfare The Southeast Asia of my skin is where I house the enemy as it dodges, hides, digs down deep, plants incendiary devices under camouflaged places. Wait—I didn’t enlist, never went through basic training, and I haven’t been issued any equipment. And in this terrain— once a resort, green shade, crystal waters— now, one excavation after another, a crazy-quilt, cross-hatched with echoes of the surgeon’s precise needlework. -2- 13 Ways to Respond to Yet Another Biopsy Report (1) Daydream about peeling off all your skin, one bloody strip at a time. Living skinless, dripping, wrapped perhaps in parchment paper (no plastic, please) to protect the … Continue reading →