in therapy, snow white learns to use I-feel statements by Indrani Sengupta
"All my parts are invitations to a party. I will not be attending."
in therapy, snow white learns to use I-feel statements
by Indrani Sengupta
- all my parts are invitations to a party. I will not be attending.
- I have never once been naked. there are always rabbits, voles,
the many-irised dark.
- and men who think they owe me things.
- in the mirror I decouple into mirror and girl, losing nothing.
there is no ask. there is no functional mouth. we cannot even
touch each other.
- the mirror and I have more hands than I could bear alone.
- the mirror bleeds an outrageous simulacrum of my bleeding,
pinks the satin and clocks the moon's gradations, wanly. I feel
- winter comes all at once or not at all. which is to say, winter comes
at once and I cannot glove, boot, outpace my hunger. I feel
- I have swallowed the unsatisfactory object, satisfactorily.
- I have learned to learn to love the given name.
- the men who think they owe me things are the men who
think they are invited. they want salmon cakes & toothpicks
& warm bowls of rosewater to hoick themselves into.
- these men are all spit and no blood. I feel.
- I feel “I feel” is a new sort of stripping, with neither you nor I titillated.
- satin, spruce, the dangling invitation of my hair.
- and the parson was invited. and the masons were invited, and the
miller the tailor the king,
- where I was the party, I feel
I was the party, I feel
the halls juddering like veins.