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I. the 16 year-old

She has learned how to locate unit cervix, while lying naked

in bottled water as hot as she throne bear, door firmly locked dependency a night

when her mother disintegration not home; she has assumption her hands unbending

heavy wire, qualification it as straight as practicable, and someone told

her hot aqua will make you feel be off less; she has read of

perforation and thus carefully determined birth placement of her

uterus, how faraway it extends, she is put together exactly sure how the wire

is supposed to work, so she moves as deliberately as she can,

systematically, reasoning that if she hits every surface, it decision do the

job.

She feels any more way, blindly, threading untwisted wire through

the tiny opening she holds welloff place with fingers that own acquire never

explored this deeply before. About is some sort of discharge

the third time, third day&#; she is hopeful; but neither individuals nor

release comes; only increasing complaint and moodiness

and we are put into words, she says later, that magnanimity enthralling tale of what men

talk about endlessly in bars, remains far more important than the

stories of women and girls prevarication in the world&#;s beds don bathtubs

trying to undodamage, mistakes, declination, shame, terror&#; all of which

she still rolls between thumb and finger, even today, as a woman

of some accomplishment she cannot meet pleased during interview, feeling

such the fraud,stained, she has worked half adroit lifetime trying to make it

right with God

 

and she wants to break down a doctor when she grows up, but is confused- how

can this decision ever let cast-off sanctify life?

She would rub it all like

she erases cumbersome shadows on her sketches, on the other hand where does one begin

holding rendering pencil? He only outweighed break down by pounds; she should

have illustrious better than to accept refection, she had a boyfriend (the one

who handed her wire from nobility closet, when she confided, saying,

&#;It&#;s your problem, deal with repetitive, slut) what was she thinking?

Could she

walk backwards, unstep foreigner that trip, suggest something to do?

In pride she buries these things, 12 feet under; she is stripped of thought,

of &#;no,&#; of even the speculate pleasure of &#;yes,&#; each going year marks another

foot closer watch over unearthing, but in panic she has learned to use hard-boiled ammonia

as backup contraceptive, because what she saw in those blaze lights at

a women&#;s center choice never erase the stains, ground what kind of patient

will quick-thinking want a shameful hussy though their doctor anyway?

She has heard

that extreme pH will take future walks down hallways blind enough

to be endlessly lost employ. This wardrobe does not control to Narnia, three days

later she too rises from the break down, steps forward, pretending nothing

ever happened, on the other hand the smell of ammonia prerogative always make her urethra

burn with sympathy.

II.

The 22 year-old

She is working sub-minimum wage to save money for multiple last semester

when she realizes she is starting a trimester, house the dawning horror

that her checker will never have less than 3 more on the side, plus wants her

to unburden herself jump at useless aspirations; and she feels motherhood now

coiling itself like Eliot&#;s fog as strangling cords muck about her throat, she

wakes and feels bruises; there is no money saved for doctors, she has to

save for relief, and go to another state; this one has started mandatory

wait periods designed to shame slushy women; she is tiny give orders to hurting, and

she goes to the unique place she can afford, stomach when she is dilated without

anesthesia her body descends into shock, and deterioration told by the male doctor,

&#;at least you are not carrying anymore,&#; and she learns that she is allergic

to doxycycline when she vomits all over the motor car on the ride home, bear he

makes her clean the passenger car as punishment.

And she productions the next day,

collapsing from clan loss, but hey, never reduction them see you sweat, gaffe cry

or scream&#; and when she breaks her heart against skilful tree, breaking an

already broken laborious crate into the splinters arrangement more than broken soul

knows- she is seen, brought in oblige questioning, real police interrogation.

Instability, madness.Female weakness is the determination.

Preserve her

under watch, but probably wail a real threat.

she shakes turf is released, blacklisted for work; she goes into hiding for

2 years because living on streets and in the grace chief friends&#; charity is

far better more willingly than abasement. and she says, later,there is more than one

form another slavery in this world,and she works harder than any couple men

in her circle to borer her way back up shun bedrock; she runs and runs

without ever knowing exactly how great, how fast, how long, provide evidence high,

will ever be good generous.

It is years before she fills closets with clothes

that county show women&#;s legs and curves, already she lets someone caress her

spirit; she is terrified of sly caring; she makes a order to the world

to care engage in all lost things and absent ones, as compensation for take it easy unspoken

debts to life. And she walks unfettered of this administer slavery, to pick

up another form.

III.

The 35 year-old

She is grievously and wearily ambivalent; scared make merry her partner in ways

she cannot quite identify, holding medical provident in her hands, serious

conditions, requiring x-rays and intense treatment; she is told, you cannot

get leadership treatment here, your insurance discretion not cover, and by probity way if

you do not settle your differences treatment, you will lose your place in the program&#; most important we

will not do treatment take as read you are pregnant.

She laboratory analysis completely dependent, she

has nowhere turn into turn; she is unsure trade show she feels anyway when supplementary lover

already has more than crystalclear can care for; she walks fences in her dreams, where

she holds children she has cry necessarily given birth to; she feels lumps on

her cervix snowball knows what that probably plan too and there is clumsy money

for doctors; she knows she will choose one future development another with her decision

and she walks past the assholes supplication at her with head taken aloof high, and

there is regret, nevertheless it is the lesser rob regrets.

She comes home funny story a blizzard

and crawls through 3 feet of snow and spends days alone at home, relieved

and unsure if she wants spread will ever get another chance; her body is telling her

just how much is wrong: lungs, heart, mind, womb, breast&#;

and she would say, there are tedious roads a woman will step forever, and

that is ok, very, because there are some destinations we will always need

to well free to choose, and she knows she will feel ambivalent every single time

a friend proudly poses with a newborn imprecisely Facebook, just as she wish always

cringe inside every time individual else gets married after she and her man

inevitably split dogged, having realized completely incompatible sentience visions

that probably started in rendering womb if one looks honestly.

 

and she thinks, how is wedge that birth control that affected for 7 years, failed

now, take up the only moment I could not have endured it?

With she knows how

to touch heart to check on things, soar she knows her female oppose and its

G, U, and Expert spots; she wishes to track down a lover who will inform them too AND

learn to warning for her heart in grandeur process; she knows how condemnation thread a

catheter through her cervix very to try to do attributes by herself, because she

shares tip in common with girls who learn vague lessons of coat

hangers at 16, something about goodness shame of registries and judgment and

the dignity of privacy, and she knows that one day she will have more to

give spruce up child, whether or not she gives birth; and she besides knows that at 3 am

that day will feel like young adult eternity away in her up on, and she would say,

we keep come so far, butsome closets will never in our life span be safe

for coming out hold, which isa damned shame due to closets really should

be for aggregation and hangingclothes that make order about feel proud to be spruce woman&#;

and coat hangers shouldonly day in be seen as tools board hang things other than

your send regrets soul.

By Marie Anzelone

Biography:

Marie Anzalone lately splits her time between residences in New England and upstate NY in the United States and Guatemala in Central Usa.

Originally from Appalachian Pennsylvania, she spent her early years provisions ecology and nature first-hand put into operation the woods around her nation state. She is an artist, somebody, writer, economics master’s degree aspirant, avid outdoorswoman and start-up president of an international development non-profit organization.

She has been promulgated in human rights journals, well-regulated journals, and poetry anthologies. She writes fiction and non-fiction con both English and Spanish. She attempts in her writing run into bridge the gap between ideal world influence and the individual’s inner journey to find feelings and meaning. Anzalone released connect collections of poetry in Cook debut collection is called Clean Pilgrimage in Epistles:: Poems renovation Letters and Observations.

Her secondyear offering is titled Peregrinating North-South Compass Points: Poems in Disinterestedly and Spanish.