This selection, chosen by guest editor Alyse Bensel, is from Iguana Iguana by Caylin Capra-Thomas, released by Deep Vellum in 2022. Crosscut
So many girls are trying to tell you this: the line between the hurt body and the body that hurts is razor-thin and traversable like the trail we carved into the mountain to climb beyond the snow line and slip off. Pain, the happening. Pain, the procedure. Firewood is not the tree’s submission but the consequence of being rooted. One place will cut you down. Girls, this is not forever. We are not forever, but we will forever have been here. Clear-eyed and cross-legged in the crosscut clearing. Plain-toothed
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