07: The Body - July 2021

Natural Composition

I’ve heard it spoken once before in a high school science class that water constitutes nearly sixty percent of our gossamer bodies.  Having been given only glimpses into our complex interiors, I imagine the other forty percent involves peculiar mixtures of lingering aspirations,  tongue-tied silence, jaded remembrances, and the poised solicitudes spiraling from prior erasures of memory. However, I’m extremely inclined to profess that assumptions about the composition of one particular body are always shattered…

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07: The Body - July 2021

Body Broken

I wonder, with my body and your body and so many other bodies on this planet, how much  we break the body of space that surrounds us daily. I think about the way we exchange the air we breathe with the abounding atmosphere in our inhales and exhales, how they pollute the rising horizons and the fading paper-mâché fantasies with equally paper-mâché people. Just two days ago at the diner I used to often visit,…

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