body Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/body/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Sun, 05 May 2019 04:41:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 body Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/body/ 32 32 135387410 Cellophane Ghosts https://elephantsnever.com/cellophane-ghosts/ https://elephantsnever.com/cellophane-ghosts/#respond Sun, 05 May 2019 04:41:06 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1615 by Amanda McLeod Dead jellyfish float  transparent in the void below my rib cage, invisible echoes of unforgotten pain. Ghostly tentacles, trailing translucent threads of agony against my lungs, my heart, drinking my oxygen, taking up space left for breathing, diaphanous, penetrating. I wrap myself in this  cellophane, unseen suffocation, extra gloss doesn’t hide suffering but shows no cause. Amanda Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/cellophane-ghosts/feed/ 0 1615 Why Are You So Skinny? https://elephantsnever.com/why-are-you-so-skinny/ https://elephantsnever.com/why-are-you-so-skinny/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2019 12:17:43 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1552 by Lamar Neal I once thought my body was hideous, Filled with reminders why no one called me their own. At such a tender age, I lived envious Broken that puberty was my curse and others’ milestone. I couldn’t understand why God Didn’t give me a reason to hold my head high. The only time people were awed By my Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/why-are-you-so-skinny/feed/ 0 1552 Homage to My Middle-Aged Black Body https://elephantsnever.com/middle-aged-black-body/ https://elephantsnever.com/middle-aged-black-body/#respond Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:44:36 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1419 by Christine Taylor Because most of the time I hate this body stiff hip flexors, cracking knees sore, cystic breasts rolls and stretch marks that appear in mirrored angles I marvel when on the sidewalk escorting at the women’s clinic I swell by how completely I love this body the brownness of it its animal-like awareness, its speed getting to Read More

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