
“You may feel a tingling or burning sensation…when the milk lets down….Don’t be concerned if you feel or see nothing; every mother is different.Simply watch your baby.”—Breastfeeding: A Parent’s Guide A hair falls out. Notice how your belly hangs over the top of your jeans even at the baby’s three-month birthday—this you tell yourself is…

all the ways to say it blubber / bovine / buxom chubby / chunky / chastised damaged / daring / dumpy sound like Emily feral / flotsam / fruitful gargantuan / glutton / gross heathen / hearty / heavy inflation alters dress sizes, but can’t obscure the scale jelly / jiggly / jilted killer /…

Body (n.): Old English: “trunk, chest; of unknown origin, replaced by leib, originally meaning “life”. * Life connects so closely to the body. How it directs, chest full of everything it holds onto. * Fooling the body doesn’t work. Even when equipped with this knowledge, I still to this day constantly try. But stress knows…

If you’re thinking about lasers consider this: over time it seems to fade then appears to vanish What is the secret that makes this possible? makes everything right? Imagine it virtually disappears Who will you be? Day 1: Week 1: Month 1: lost time continuous perfecting Note: This is a found poem…

nameless, I stare at the sun and swallow up babyteeth. I like the way my eyes hurt and I like the way my throat gets chopped up so bloody and small. one thousand cuts! I’m so nothing that I’m not even fractions! I stand in the lake looking up up up and I sink into…