more notes toward an anatomical theology - dimples of venus
Somewhere out there a man has started thinking about God again. It’s been so long since he’s looked at his wife while she sleeps. It’s been so long he’s always in a hurry to fall into dreaming and breathing and maybe one day not waking again. Tonight, though, it’s very late and she’s already rolled onto her stomach and she’s breathing like a mouse. Her t-shirt is nudging away from her bottom and his thumbs twitch, little mouse twitches, little exhales, little moist breaths. There, peeking now from her shirt, two small dimples, slight indentations—still there after so many years of disregard, of quickly closing his eyes, of untending. Softly then, he sets his thumbs upon them, presses quietly down, like making safe some seeds to flower. He doesn’t imagine God forming her, placing his thumbs on her lower back and gently sending her into the world to bloom—he doesn’t believe in God. But before he rolls over to sleep, he could.
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this has successfully changed my feelings towards my dimples.
now embracing them.
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Venus dimples are created when there is a visible cleft in the topography of the sacroiliac joint. This cleft is considered by many to be sexually desirable. it’s more common in women than it is in men.
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