Name: On The Nights I Cannot Bring Myself To Lick The Crumbs Off My Fingers
Duration: P00H01M06S
Description: **This poem is after Samantha Peterson.**

On The Nights I Cannot Bring Myself To Lick The Crumbs Off My Fingers

from Stouthearted Bitch by Julia Gaskill

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**This poem is after Samantha Peterson.**

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most days i try to find the perfect metaphor
to describe my body like
it is that simple
paint it in poetic subtext
so it must be true

all these words claiming my body is

a china plate is
a dumbbell is
a sinking ship is
a meteor shower is
a wishing well but

last i checked
my body is
a body

all bone rubble and crying muscles
the arteries routing through flesh
dotted freckles kissing wrists and hips

my body is just as complex as the body
it shares a bed with the body it speaks to
in the office the body it does not
smile at on the street the
body it downs a beer with at day’s end

there is nothing and everything poetic
about trying to survive
in these bodies we do not understand

most days my body is a body
but therein lies the problem

some days my body wishes
it could just be
anything else

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from Stouthearted Bitch, released October 19, 2019

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Julia Gaskill Portland, Oregon

Julia Gaskill (she/her) is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured on FreezeRay Poetry, Ink&Nebula, SlamFind, Knight's Library Magazine, Write About Now, and more. Julia is the author of four chapbooks, has competed nationally with her poems, runs the mic Slamlandia, and co-founded the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam in 2019. ... more

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