- calcificate, calcify, calcification, calcium.
- to surround a
foreign object, that can
potentially harm the human body, with calcium.
- to resemble
the process of calcification.
- examples of items the body might calcificate: tumors, still born babies, parasitic twins, items lost during surgery (i.e. gauze, scalpel).
When the human body considers an item within it as foreign, it either rejects it, absorbs it, or calcificates it.
Things in life were hard and what she’d learned as a child was to cocoon, calcificate jagged, polluting experiences. Compartmentalizing them in a box, in a bag, in a box, in a bag, in another box, like her mother stored holiday decorations. She hid the ugliness she came across in a storage shed
in the dark recesses of her mind. Engulfed by party supplies,
stuffed animals, her sister’s prom dress and winter clothes
the darkness hibernated.