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LISA COFFMAN 133 ABOUT THE PELVIS from Likely (1996) Pelvis, that furnace, is a self-fueler: shoveler of energy into the body. It is the chair that walks. Swing that can fire off like a rocket. It carries the torso, it sets the torso down. It connects the brother legs, and lets them speak. Trust the pelvis-it will get everything else there: pull you onto a ledge, push you into a run. It is the other spine, prone, like the fallow field. Here are the constellations of the pelvis: Drawn Bow, Flame-of-One-Branch, Round Star, and Down-Hanging-Mountains. Here is the dress of the pelvis: crescent belly, and buttocks shaken like a dance of masks. Forget the pelvis, and you're a stove good for parts: motion gone, heat gone, and the soup pots empty. ...

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