Hello Body. 12.
I find a dusty camcorder in the garage. It used to belong to my grandmother. It takes VHS tapes. In the years between 11 and 12 all want...
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jenparkhill
- Mar 23, 2020
Hello Body. 11.
I’m 12. My father wakes me at 7am in a panic. Saturday morning. What happened? Are you okay??? He can barely produce the sounds that make...
jenparkhill
- Mar 14, 2020
Hello Body. 10.
Mother-less. My mother leaves our home as I enter the 6th grade. It will be years before I begin to understand the disease that takes her...
jenparkhill
- Feb 13, 2020
Hello Body. 9.
I slide into puberty like a whale slamming home base. Belly up and lacking grace. I still want to be the girl who skins her knees playing...
jenparkhill
- Jan 8, 2020
Hello Body. 8.
I’m standing on a stage with my hair in a cap and lights in my eyes. The play is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I’m Charlie. Freckles...
jenparkhill
- Jan 8, 2020
Hello Body. 7.
At 8, I am obsessed with the mirror. I can drop anchor there. There. My feet in the sink on the counter in that bathroom with the peeling...
jenparkhill
- Dec 29, 2019
Hello Body. 6.
6. At 6 I play all day on the monkey bars. I lay in bed at night and run my fingers over the callouses on my palms. I earned this. Pride....
jenparkhill
- Dec 24, 2019
Hello Body. 5.
5. I disappear one afternoon. I’m five years old. My mother finds me in a neighbor’s closet where the neighbor’s five year-old son and I...
jenparkhill
- Dec 23, 2019
Hello Body. 4.
4. My brother is an infant. Baby skin. I can’t get enough of that skin. I maul him. I kiss his crown. I carry him from room to room. Tiny...
jenparkhill
- Dec 10, 2019
Hello Body. 3.
3. I’m four and a half years old. I hold up 4 pudgy fingers to tell you so. I make sure to add the half. With voice. The half is...
jenparkhill
- Dec 8, 2019
Hello Body. 2.
2. My second birthday. Or perhaps it is my third. I climb out of my crib to spy my mother making a cake in the kitchen. The smell of...
jenparkhill
- Dec 4, 2019
Hello Body. 1.
1. I’m bare skinned and belly down on a lamb skin rug. I’m watching myself in a mirror fixed to one side of a triangular plastic toy. The...
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