"Maybe this is why my house feels bigger each time I return; it's proportional.
As she shrinks the space around her seems increasingly vast....."
"I have been taught accommodation.
My brother never thinks before he speaks.
I have been taught to filter.
"How can anyone have a relationship to food?" he asks, laughing, as I eat the black bean soup I chose for its lack of carbs.
I want to say: we come from difference, Jonas,
you have been taught to grow out,
I have been taught to grow in."
"I learned to absorb.
I took lessons from our mother in creating space around myself.
I learned to read the knots in her forehead"
Sources:
Genius Media Group Inc.. (2014, July 29). Shrinking Women .
Retrieved from http://lit.genius.com/Lily-myers-shrinking-women-annotated
Button Poetry (2014, July 29). Sugar: Lily Myers - "Shrinking Women" (CUPSI 2013) [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/zQucWXWXp3k
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