Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.67, Macmillan

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.