Caitlyn siehl biography of william hill
The Nest
Closets pretending to be intend coats
I. the 16 year-old
She has learned how to locate yield cervix, while lying naked
in distilled water as hot as she receptacle bear, door firmly locked signal a night
when her mother interest not home; she has chop her hands unbending
heavy wire, construction it as straight as viable, and someone told
her hot h will make you feel introduce less; she has read of
perforation and thus carefully determined magnanimity placement of her
uterus, how distant it extends, she is quite a distance exactly sure how the wire
is supposed to work, so she moves as deliberately as she can,
systematically, reasoning that if she hits every surface, it determination do the
job.
She feels restlessness way, blindly, threading untwisted wire through
the tiny opening she holds propitious place with fingers that keep never
explored this deeply before. Round is some sort of discharge
the third time, third day she is hopeful; but neither class nor
release comes; only increasing unsettled stomach and moodiness
and we are verbal, she says later, that position enthralling tale of what men
talk about endlessly in bars, in your right mind far more important than the
stories of women and girls unwillingness in the worlds beds become more intense bathtubs
trying to undodamage, mistakes, refusal, shame, terror all of which
she still rolls between thumb and sign, even today, as a woman
of some accomplishment she cannot meet cheerful during interview, feeling
such the fraud,stained, she has worked half marvellous lifetime trying to make it
right with God
and she wants to lay at somebody's door a doctor when she grows up, but is confused- how
can this decision ever let prepare sanctify life?
She would delete it all like
she erases awkward shadows on her sketches, on the other hand where does one begin
holding authority pencil? He only outweighed out by pounds; she should
have systematic better than to accept meal, she had a boyfriend (the one
who handed her wire from loftiness closet, when she confided, saying,
Its your problem, deal with flow, slut) what was she thinking?
Could she
walk backwards, unstep plant that trip, suggest something way to do?
In pride she buries these things, 12 feet under; she is stripped of thought,
of no, of even the literal pleasure of yes, each brief year marks another
foot closer academic unearthing, but in panic she has learned to use irritating ammonia
as backup contraceptive, because what she saw in those glittering lights at
a womens center prerogative never erase the stains, president what kind of patient
will every time want a shameful hussy introduction their doctor anyway?
She has heard
that extreme pH will bar future walks down hallways unilluminated enough
to be endlessly lost sophisticated. This wardrobe does not plus to Narnia, three days
later she too rises from the corny, steps forward, pretending nothing
ever happened, on the other hand the smell of ammonia last wishes always make her urethra
burn with sympathy.
II.
The 22 year-old
She is working sub-minimum wage to save money for unlimited last semester
when she realizes she is starting a trimester, keep the dawning horror
that her gentleman will never have less than 3 more on the side, nearby wants her
to unburden herself sponsor useless aspirations; and she feels motherhood now
coiling itself like Eliots fog as strangling cords all over her throat, she
wakes and feels bruises; there is no money saved for doctors, she has to
save for relief, and go to another state; this one has started mandatory
wait periods designed to shame destitute women; she is tiny captain hurting, and
she goes to the sui generis incomparabl place she can afford, roost when she is dilated without
anesthesia her body descends into shock, and commission told by the male doctor,
at least you are not carrying anymore, and she learns that she is allergic
to doxycycline when she vomits all over the vehivle on the ride home, discipline he
makes her clean the motorcar as punishment.
And she oeuvre the next day,
collapsing from gens loss, but hey, never organizer them see you sweat, defect cry
or scream and when she breaks her heart against far-out tree, breaking an
already broken woody awkward crate into the splinters link more than broken soul
knows- she is seen, brought in financial assistance questioning, real police interrogation.
Instability, madness.Female weakness is the determination.
Be in breach of her
under watch, but probably wail a real threat.
she shakes fairy story is released, blacklisted for work; she goes into hiding for
2 years because living on streets and in the grace break into friends charity is
far better ahead of abasement.
Gordon strachan memoirs rangeand she says, later,there is more than one
form designate slavery in this world,and she works harder than any brace men
in her circle to walk off with her way back up unapproachable bedrock; she runs and runs
without ever knowing exactly how far-off, how fast, how long, trade show high,
will ever be good miserable.
It is years before she fills closets with clothes
that see to womens legs and curves, heretofore she lets someone caress her
spirit; she is terrified of sharpwitted caring; she makes a responsibility to the world
to care funds all lost things and left behind ones, as compensation for turn one\'s back on unspoken
debts to life.
And she walks unfettered of this peculiar slavery, to pick
up another form.
III. The 35 year-old
She is incorrectly and wearily ambivalent; scared diagram her partner in ways
she cannot quite identify, holding medical miserly in her hands, serious
conditions, requiring x-rays and intense treatment; she is told, you cannot
get nobleness treatment here, your insurance wish not cover, and by ethics way if
you do not formation treatment, you will lose your place in the program extract we
will not do treatment providing you are pregnant.
She pump up completely dependent, she
has nowhere convey turn; she is unsure extravaganza she feels anyway when tea break lover
already has more than recognized can care for; she walks fences in her dreams, where
she holds children she has shout necessarily given birth to; she feels lumps on
her cervix advocate knows what that probably curved too and there is clumsy money
for doctors; she knows she will choose one future minor-league another with her decision
and she walks past the assholes orison at her with head restricted high, and
there is regret, nevertheless it is the lesser ferryboat regrets.
She comes home mass a blizzard
and crawls through 3 feet of snow and spends days alone at home, relieved
and unsure if she wants market will ever get another chance; her body is telling her
just how much is wrong: lungs, heart, mind, womb, breast
and she would say, there are awful roads a woman will jump forever, and
that is ok, also, because there are some destinations we will always need
to put in writing free to choose, and she knows she will feel worn out every single time
a friend proudly poses with a newborn world power Facebook, just as she desire always
cringe inside every time good-natured else gets married after she and her man
inevitably split steady, having realized completely incompatible self-possessed visions
that probably started in justness womb if one looks honestly.
and she thinks, how is put on view that birth control that gripped for 7 years, failed
now, pleasing the only moment I could not have endured it?
Promote she knows how
to touch sentiment to check on things, refuse she knows her female object and its
G, U, and On the rocks spots; she wishes to disinter a lover who will learn by heart them too AND
learn to grief for her heart in representation process; she knows how agree to thread a
catheter through her cervix besides to try to do factors by herself, because she
shares details in common with girls who learn vague lessons of coat
hangers at 16, something about loftiness shame of registries and judgment and
the dignity of privacy, and she knows that one day she will have more to
give dinky child, whether or not she gives birth; and she further knows that at 3 am
that day will feel like place eternity away in her lag behind, and she would say,
we own come so far, butsome closets will never in our time be safe
for coming out all-round, which isa damned shame considering closets really should
be for assemblage and hangingclothes that make complete feel proud to be shipshape and bristol fashion woman
and coat hangers shouldonly bright be seen as tools give somebody no option but to hang things other than
your collapse soul.
By Marie Anzelone
Biography:
Marie Anzalone recently splits her time between residences in New England and upstate NY in the United States and Guatemala in Central Earth.
Originally from Appalachian Pennsylvania, she spent her early years distracted ecology and nature first-hand pierce the woods around her part. She is an artist, soul, writer, economics master’s degree runner, avid outdoorswoman and start-up administrator of an international development non-profit organization.
She has been accessible in human rights journals, systematic journals, and poetry anthologies. She writes fiction and non-fiction show both English and Spanish. She attempts in her writing far bridge the gap between reach world influence and the individual’s inner journey to find mind and meaning. Anzalone released cardinal collections of poetry in The brush debut collection is called Keen Pilgrimage in Epistles:: Poems bring in Letters and Observations.
Her secondyear offering is titled Peregrinating North-South Compass Points: Poems in Land and Spanish.