hands, lips, and teeth– is that all you have to offer, to a girl like me?
hands, lips, and teeth–
Tag: thoughts
self-conscious
Self- conscious: The image in the mirror distorts... The image ripples, distorts as the chatter behind me disappears.Time pauses- a blip in time as the mirror unveils a being fashioned in flesh, muscle, and bone, a being that almost resembles me. She turns left and right, sucks in her stomach and arches her back-hoping to distract [...]
conversations
Everyone: How are you feeling today? Me: anxious and self- conscious. Everyone: Oh? (Taken aback) Me: yeah. I feel life is crashing down on me. Like I'm in the middle of the ocean and I'm drowning. There is not enough air yet my lungs keep on working. I put so much pressure on myself that [...]
languid fantasies
languid fantasies have commanded the stage for aeons, but have we forgotten the beasts we once were–the beasts who did not need music and poetry to convey what they truly desired?
my womb is not my own;
Like Eve, I fell, And like Lilith, I am punished. My womb is not my own; Pale hands caress and judge As I spread my thighs with my own authorization; my womb is not my own; Pain wrecks havoc inside of me, I curl Up like the fetus inside me; my womb is not my [...]
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 