13 Ways to Play with Your Body
by India Moore
Pretend you do not have a body.
Become transparent silk only felt and not seen.
Picture your own bone marrow.
Picture plucking milky white teeth from gum.
Picture yourself in the trees making hand signal morse code
above a slantless sun baked field.
Touch yourself.
Pretend you do not have a body only a heart.
Become a dancing figure borne of other slightly larger dancing figures.
Picture yourself disappearing. Picture the forgotten trail of blood that brought you here.
Picture yourself thinner and taller
and darker and wider.
Touch your thick black happy trail on your thick Black happy body.
Pretend you are a ghost and you do not exist at all despite all of your
Becoming.