send full breaths 

in tension, in tendons 

rhythms and intervals 

bend. fold. 

Hold. 

timed hyperextensions 

unveil unserious thought experiments ligaments lengthening to perform so to be formless, frameless 

a body beyond  

capacity 

elasticity 

becoming twisty taffy 

stretching my truth 

then stretching tightening lies stretch-spectations 

spectators, commentators, audience absent adoration 

after that.  

aftermath. 

1 and 2 and 3 and 4  

and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 

count out  

1 and 2 and 3 and 4  

and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8

the carbon copied cliches  

… my contemporaries 

cowering to countdowns  

upon biological clocks 

in this age 

I stretch time 

And hold. 

breath 

longer, lunging to greater lengths 

these unwarranted conversations 

attempts. tying knots. stomach sickness.  

loosen. pull. disjoint. uncoupled. 

and still. no children. 

a vessel, for the art 

a pro creator 

no children. 

mommy issues yet 

another warning 

fertile. focus. future. futile. for real? 

engendered. reveal  

body committed 

a sacrilegious extremity 

bending this entity. musculature mature. lengthening longing. exhibited. experimented. uninhibited. uninhabited. And hold again. 

deep. this breathing. deeper stretch 

send breath to the pain 

lamaze 

labor in the studio  

awol mater

a wall mirrors 

no thing minor 

a bar, I may still visit 

adjust posture. 

free to assume 

first position. 

or any for that matter. 

free. flexible. fit. sexable. un-beget-able. a modern woman.