this virgin churns on the back of her own indisposed and throbbing body. nauseated she chokes on her own vomit emitted from her distended and desiccated throat. weak and obscured this woman's body begins to convulse and twitch in her now soiled sheets with an abdomen beginning to flourish as her ribs now unhinge and shift. beneath the rib cage lay a sweltering child. a child forcing and pushing outward for decampment of his mother's womb. bearing a bastard child. bearing what is now the son of the new world's lord. bearing the serpent's lamb. overwhelmed she grows debilitated and weak. staying attentive becomes more burdensome