“I read an article about mass shootings
and how when a person survives one
in a movie theater perhaps
they may never go to the movies again.

The wide dark,
the silver glow,
only the narrow aisles
for cover...

it's all too much.

Sites of trauma.

And I think that school
has obviously become
a site of trauma for me

but so has Kroger
and the park
and sometimes
the bus

even though it also
a vessel of freedom.

But the thing that all
of these sites have in common
is my body,
and I wonder
sometimes
how you avoid a site
of trauma when the site
is your own self
and I think the answer is
you stop thinking of the body
as yours
and maybe that makes it
easier to walk
inside it.”