ILEANA TRUDI RAPP born January 21 at 10:51 am

Transparent people in the recovery room. Effect of pain relief prescription. It’s funny to be exhausted and inflamed by joy. Meeting mostly other men in the hallway warming up meals, boiling water or smearing peanut butter; a new arrival says I look tired. I feel complete by my daughter. Seeing her as part of myself, someone of me, who might really come to understand the weird nuance of this subjectivity. I feel like even at one day old, she already knows.