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Wild, Salty Body of Water
The Salish Sea is a wet lung breathing outside our balcony while my boyfriend Doug and I sleep. It inhales and exhales all night long, sucking seaweed into its salty windpipe, spitting crustaceans upon...
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In Palmetto Landing, the men’s bodies existed in inverse proportion to those of their wives. Ahead of the publication of her much anticipated collection Difficult Women, out in January 2017, you can...
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The Middle Season
It was a glorious Indian Summer day. Red and yellow leaves twirled down from maple trees along the street. I enjoyed their leisurely descent as I took my morning walk. I felt their lazy rhythm in my...
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Voices on Addiction: The Ghost Inside
Three months from turning thirty, a responsible adult with a job, car, and apartment, I crawled like a desperate animal into a nondescript room with outdated white wicker chairs and coffee-stained...
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Trail’s End
The park ranger at the Visitor Center in Arches National Park scrutinized my husband and me, taking in our seventy-two-year-old faces and well-worn Tilly hats before she answered. I’d said we were...
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Thick and Thin
I graduated college just shy of 300 pounds, wearing a size thirty dress under cap and gown, still trying desperately to find someone to love. No one would even hire me, let alone date me, so I temped a...
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Tiamat on the Treadmill
They hang from the shoulders, limp and loose, all the way to the knobbly line where the hip joint protrudes. In that empty space, that blank breeziness, the male body is framed: thick lines of abdomen...
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff
Jennifer Pastiloff is asleep in my bed. She couldn’t get into her Airbnb until after 4 p.m., but she’d traveled to Portland with her mom and toddler. I left her a key to my house so she could have a...
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Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain
I. In the place I come from, once the Thai moon is fully swollen, the Kaumaras prepare themselves for Kavadi. For forty-eight days, they abstain from meat and sex and alcohol, sleep on cold floors,...
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