freshly peeled ginger
floating in steaming water
an icepack against my back
strapped around my torso
fragments of scrambled eggs
swirling into the drain
ancient cannabis edibles
now in the new fridge
relaxed by slowly repeating
the body is a defiance
the kitchen door open
wind with no message
Brandon North is a working-class, disabled, and multi-genre writer from Ohio. He is the author of the speculative nonfiction chapbook From The Pages of Every Book (Ghost City Press), and his poems and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Annulet, The Cleveland Review of Books, Bridge (Chicago), and elsewhere. SUBSTACK
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