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<strong>Switchgrass</strong> <strong>Review</strong> • Vol. 6 27<br />
Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues<br />
Thank you for your patience<br />
as I undo decades of<br />
stored tension held<br />
in my lower belly,<br />
as I learn to unbridle<br />
my internal corset<br />
Thank you for your patience<br />
while I try on<br />
radical friendship<br />
first towards my body and mindlet<br />
me see how it feels<br />
against my skin<br />
within my fascia<br />
held within my thoughts<br />
-then within the circumference<br />
of souls whom I see as<br />
my chain of support<br />
the ones who are familiar with<br />
the song of my heart<br />
I’ll welcome<br />
the eternal fitting on<br />
to the collective body<br />
of radical friendship<br />
there is no tag that reads<br />
One Size Fits All<br />
this is a life-long flow<br />
of silhouettes and abounding colors<br />
of texture as universal and changing as<br />
the wind<br />
the universal thread braided into<br />
One Line<br />
allows me to come back to<br />
myself<br />
and<br />
I thank you for your patience
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