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Rh Leg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg, Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel, All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of
 * my or your body, or of any one's body, male or
 * female,

The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet
 * and clean,

The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame, Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity, Womanhood, and all that is a woman—and the man
 * that comes from woman,

The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter,
 * weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and
 * risings,

The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting
 * aloud,

Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking,
 * swimming,

Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving,
 * and tightening,

The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and
 * around the eyes,

The skin, the sun-burnt shade, freckles, hair, The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with
 * the hand the naked meat of his own body, or
 * another person's body,

The circling rivers, the breath, and breathing it in
 * and out,

The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and
 * thence downward toward the knees,

The thin red jellies within you, or within me—the
 * bones, and the marrow in the bones,

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