I make a fist because I can. I stay up late, or I go to bed early. I climb the hill with wheels in the middle of the road, standing up out of the seat, bike tracing the double yellow past houses trees construction traffic bus and shrub. I get lost in my body’s ability […]
Yesterday I went for a hike in the park and ended up lost in the woods. I hopped from trail to trail to trail all the way up. I stopped and turned 360 often to admire my surroundings. So green. And oh the quiet. I fell in love with that lack of noise, that notoriously […]
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i feel so foolish when i forget. when the world wads herself up and jams in my shoe–moving or standing still will crush it. to think i crush the ocean. to think i crush all the loves, fingers unsettling a button or palm on hips sliding and sliding and sliding. such a responsibility for […]
My old roommate Jess and I used to listen to a recording of T.S. Eliot reading “The Wasteland.” We liked to repeat his lines, trying to emulate his cadence and slightly creepy inflection, particularly the line, “April is the cruelest month.” I think of that memory now, as March shoves its own door shut and […]
every day she lays out the clothes and poison,
then she checks on gretal rising in the oven.
praise the miracle body: the odd
and undeniable mechanics of hand,
hundred-boned foot, perfect stretch
of tendon
praise the veins that river these wrists
praise the prolapsed valve in a heart
praise the scars marking a gall bladder absent
praise the rasp and rattle of functioning lungs
praise the pre-arthritic ache of elbows
and ankles
praise the lifeline sectioning a palm
praise the photographic pads of […]
Tonight’s Neuroscience lecture introduced me to the neural tube. The neural tube is the introduction of the central nervous system within the embryo. Eventually this groove in its surface will form the spinal cord and brain. Neural folds on either side of the groove are elevated until they meet to kiss the opening shut, creating […]