The poem started as disconnected fragments that came together around feminism. I went to UVA, and this was right after the Rolling Stone article came out last fall. Everyone seemed to be interested in what was happening in Charlottesville, but we didn’t all agree about what that was. At the same time, I was reading Dept. of Speculation and Empathy Exams. Seeing how Jenny Offill and Leslie Jamison wrote about intimacy opened a door for me. I wanted to make a poem that included all the things that scared me and covered my world like a migraine aura.
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