"First you have a woman and then you have a poet"

The doctor said she would "expand", said it while he washed his hands for the fifth time. She thought of a nuclear bomb...how just before everything explodes into flames, the walls swell and bubble. She watched him lay out his "tools", saw the flourescent light reflect off their edges and spin off into the room. She closed her eyes and saw a lion-- with silver claws slicing thru her solitary tower, releasing a princess from captivity.