On Retrieving My Body Back

& coming back to myself

Loba by Diane di Prima

*

(tw: violence)

Last year I was in London for one month during the summertime.

On one of those days, I was meeting a best friend of mine from Australia, who now lives in England by the sea. Em (my friend) had told me to meet her in Kensington, an utterly fancy neighborhood, and in preparation, I wore my favorite chunky clogs. I re…