Day 8 #napowrimo #the100dayproject - Vital Self

Here's my day 8 poem for #napowrimo and my second poem for #the100dayproject2020 

For this prompt, I used the Anne Carson Twitter Bot @carsonbot for inspiration. 

Vital Self

I am ready to be dissected; dissect me.

Open up this body I call body, this vehicle

of skin over bone in all of its opacity.

The sap in me, the concentric circles

of my veins when cross sectioned,

The miles of rope inside, my mute liver,

the segments at the base of my neck.

This female mouth gathers the reddest

tongue and guttural cheek. I am not

transparent, but a shiver in the spine,

an involuntary shake, the deep muscle

gathered like a pleated skirt, hemmed

with ligament. The cavities and corners,

the blood landscapes, the patchwork

quilt of organs and fat. I am nothing

but two cloths sewn together, the

pillow without its fluff, or the doll,

porcelain and cotton, stomach empty,

naked without a bonnet and blue gown.

And like a doll, my eyes will droop,

close, when I lay down.