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Maybe a wound is a way of seeing into someone. Or maybe it is an opening into the person who inflicted the wound. I don't need the wounds to disappear, but I want to give them the possibility to flower or tu'aachk, as we might say in Mojave. I can't deny my wounds, those I've gathered across my own body and mind, as well as those I have inflicted on others' bodies and minds. I can try to imagine a condition in which the wound will bloom, meaning a place beyond the wound...