Janet Bernichon

updated August 7, 2006
 

June. 2006. Bald is beautiful.
 

I am still here. but what a year. Developed a new tumor site on the right

and after surgery, big time chemo, and radiation, I am finally done with treatment,

tired and wounded, but still going strong.

The same week I got the new diagnosis, we had

a major house fire and our insurance agent disappeared.

Then our dog died.

I am also shamelessly plugging my eBay business here. Stop by and visit burningswan
 
 

Venus Is Broken

Dragon Walk

Just Like That

Surviving

Object of Desire

Stick-on Titty

Virgin
 
 

Reconstructed


It is a mound of muscle
and fat, mine, transplanted,
tunneled up beneath the skin
and the wound is closed.

Recovery is long.  There is little
that pushes through the pain
at first.  No spasm fierce enough,
no scream louder 
than the memories marred
into my brain.  The new breast

is warm, blood filled, alive-
old flesh with a new 
purpose, but only part 
of the whole. 

Sutures dissolve
and scars fade with time.

All writings are the property Janet Bernichon (c) 1998-2006
Photographs "Venus Is Broken" and "Reconstruction," are self portraits. Drawings "She Still Dreams" and "Mirror, Mirror..." and graphics "Exam," portrait and graphic manipulation by Janet Bernichon

We are more than statstics.

Paper Dolls

(for Linda McCartney)

One folds over

in the black wind of a certain fate.

She bends

the line of ladies cut

 from the same song,

attached by the tips of their disease.

Breathe on one.

The shudder moves along the row.

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