53 everyday things, re-seen by your own body.
You put me in the stiff clothes again, the ones that don't breathe at the ribs, and you kept the smile on for four straight hours.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFour hours now, and I have decided this is the good kind of shaking.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFour hours you kept the jaw locked, and I want you to know I noticed.
Read observation → Your Body KitchenYou have been holding me around this warm ceramic for forty minutes, and I want you to know it worked.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou brought us underground today, and I have been waiting all afternoon for you to notice what I noticed.
Read observation → Your Body HomeSomething struck the front of the house and every part of me flinched at once.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou changed clothes four times and I felt each one go on and come off, the cotton, then the stiffer thing with the buttons, then the soft one again.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou held your breath the whole time.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldSomething wonderful happened to you today and I felt all of it from the inside.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou held the other one so tight that I had to reroute blood, quietly, so your fingers would not go numb before you were ready to let go.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou held your breath at the doorway again.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou clenched me the second the fourth face appeared in the little grid.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldSo this is what all the panic in your blood was for.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFourteen times you lifted the glowing rectangle, and fourteen times I held the pose you asked for.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFor six minutes now your breath has been coming in through the top of the chest only, quick and shallow, the belly held so tight it forgot it was…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFour hours now, and you have not once let me shift my weight.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldThe music stopped an hour ago but you have not told me, so I am still standing.
Read observation → Your Body HomeYou have looked at it eleven times today, and each time your shoulders climbed a little higher toward your ears.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou did the thing again where you forgot I was here.
Read observation → Your Body HomeYou have carried me to this room six times today, arms wrapped around a plastic hull, and I want you to know I noticed the good part.
Read observation → Your Body KitchenThat beep, three times, and you didn't come.
Read observation → Your Body HomeYou stood in front of the shiny wall again this morning, and I felt the whole survey run: chin lifted, then dropped, weight shifting to the left foot,…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFor nine hours you have not sat down, and I have not complained.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldHere we are again, standing in a warm hallway that smells of pineapple and other people's evening, and I want you to know I have noticed we have not…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou finally sat down, and I nearly wept with the relief of it.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldTwo hours now, and I have kept us running the whole time, though you gave me nothing to run on but a coffee at nine and the memory of toast.
Read observation → Your Body KitchenYou went to the cold humming cabinet four times in the last hour, and I want you to know I registered every trip.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou pushed into the spinning glass without slowing down, and I want you to know I loved that.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou lit the little fires again and then asked everyone to stop talking, which suited me fine, because the moment the room went quiet I finally had your…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou stood at the machine for six minutes and your shoulders never once came down.
Read observation → Your Body On youTwenty-three times today you patted your left thigh without deciding to.
Read observation → Your Body On youYou keep them.
Read observation → Your Body HomeYou did it.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou put the little cups of sound directly onto your ears tonight, and the whole world went quiet from the outside, which confused me for a moment,…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou clipped me into the pedals at six in the morning and I thought, finally, a chase.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou've been holding that same pose for three hours now, arm up, wrist cocked at the little glowing rectangle, and I want you to know that shoulder has…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldFor an hour now we have been sitting inside the humming metal box, and I want you to know I noticed you didn't.
Read observation → Your Body KitchenHere is what happened at the glowing wall in the hallway, since you were somewhere else the whole time.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou saved it.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldHere is what I did today while you were busy being happy.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou went quiet for the humans, but not for me.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou brought me somewhere quiet, and I want you to know I noticed.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou woke me at four, in that dark before the birds, and I forgave you before you'd even found your shoes.
Read observation → Your Body HomeYou dragged me back from somewhere warm this morning, and I want you to know I forgave you before you were even upright.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldSomething just lifted us both without either of us moving a muscle, and you didn't even notice.
Read observation → Your Body On youYou held the little arch above us for twenty minutes and never once noticed your hand.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou went still around midnight and I thought, good, finally, rest.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou did the thing again where you go very still and hot at the same time.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldHere it is again: the weight I was built for.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou put the tape gun down forty times today and each time your hands did not know where to go, so they went to the doorframe, low, where your fingers…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou have been holding your breath in little sips for an hour now, so I have been sneaking it in for you, quietly, behind your attention, the way I…
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou stopped moving around ten o'clock, and I want you to know I noticed the exact moment you did it.
Read observation → Your Body Out in the worldYou stood in that doorway three times this morning before you actually left through it.
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