Mikaela Castledine #172 Unwound

Face down and topless

is how I make amends

to my body

for the way I overrule

it’s increasingly insistent

demands

that I stop doing what I do

Strong hands feel under the skin

for the knots I have tied

tense and tight in my fibres

presses them hard and focused

while the pain refers

down my arms

or electric shocks the back of my skull

There she says

as each one resolves

back into smoothly sliding muscle

eventually

I begin to feel unwound