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Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis is a collection of poems examining certain paradoxes of my body. As a survivor of sexual violence, my body relives trauma which makes it feel uninhabitable. I compare my experiences with the Southern Utah desert. The physical beauty, destruction and inhabitability of the desert teaches me to accept my body as both beautiful and full of grief. The poems move chronologically through my life, beginning with an abusive relationship at the age of sixteen, a move to Moab at nineteen, and becoming a mother at twenty-five. Ultimately, with the desert as my guide, I learn to accept my …
Thespian, And Other Poems, William A. Eichelbaugh
Thespian, And Other Poems, William A. Eichelbaugh
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Thespian
Do not intrude,
Even though the door—unlocked—
For the smile
I wear today
Will be
tomorrow
In the rain. . .
The smiling mask,
The private pain. . .