Friday, May 06, 2022

Poem for Friday and Shopping Fun

Scar
By Emilia Phillips

Sometimes it’s
        bigger than my
              body, the body

that gave it
        life, that is
              its life—as if I’m

a frame for
       it, as if it
              continues beyond

my end, although no
        one, not here,
              can see where

it goes, how
        far, & now
              it finds

its way into
        every possible
              place I

imagine, even
        the past, which believes
              in my scar like

a prophecy, & like a god’s
        work, I have no
              memory of it breathing

into me &
        abstracting me
              to myth from which to

remake the world
        into the rising
              & falling

action of fiction—my body
        as denouement. Sometimes I feel
              it without waiting

for its hum on
        the nerves, its shivering
              arc from eye

to jawbone. How often
        I want to
              give it a voice so

it can tell
        me what I want
              it to say—that it knows

me like tomorrow
        does. That a need lives
              in lack’s because.

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Happy belated Cinco de Mayo! Which we celebrated with tacos for dinner. I had a very nice day mostly with my friend Alice, with whom I went to lunch at the Brooklyn Deli, then stopped at the mall, which I have only been to once since the pandemic began. There has been a lot of shift, but we went first to several that are still there -- Vera Bradley to see the new Star Wars patterns, window-shopping at Lilly Pulitzer, Hallmark, and Francesca's, perfume samplers at Sephora, and we went to the new LEGO store which is a place of absolute delight and I have seen the new Thor sets! 

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Alice went home in the afternoon and and I took a walk in the beautiful cool weather, then we had the aforementioned tacos and no beer, but that's always fine with me. I had my fangirl chat in the evening, around which we watched the beginning of The Staircase, which I only wanted to watch because of Colin Firth and Toni Collette -- I'd had the impression this was more about how true crime is covered than about the actual crime, but so far it's all grim and graphic death so I'm not sure I want to watch the rest. Tomorrow is mammogram day, so I have to remember no deodorant! 

 

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