Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley

Author:Rachel Wiley [Wiley, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943735303
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

I SPENT YEARS NOT WEARING RED BECAUSE BOLD COLORS ON BIG GIRLS DRAW ATTENTION AND GOOD GIRLS DO NOT WANT ATTENTION BUT ANYWAY I AM FAT AND THEREFORE INCAPABLE OF GOODNESS

So the dress will be red

like the first time you bleed thru the back of your skirt, red fabric,

spun from the cling of an unashamed lover on a crowded street and

just as soft as their lips there are pockets made of the attic crawl

spaces of old homes for your brass knuckles and your lipstick and

photos of your grandmother feeling bold in her bikini in 1964

and it is strapless

and it can be strapless because the bust line is made from the branches

of pomegranate trees and the backbone of Atlas but with an underwire

made of the weightlessness felt in water the dress flares at the bottom

like a mermaid tail

made of fireworks

and wish-headed dandelions. The whole thing stitched with string

lights pulled straight from a Christmas tree holding

everything you ever coveted

but were denied for not being deemed worthy piled underneath

because we are worthy of wanting this dress doesn’t ask for

attention

it takes

it.

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