Belly

my skin hesitates
in places it once rounded firm notes
held steady tone
it stutters, meanders and dips
keeping the rhythm of my breath
but releasing an octave 
broadening its range,
curving down 
into a deeper hummmm

About the author

Jules Travers is a writer, artist and library assistant in Virginia, U.S.A. Find their work with Fish Publishing, Bowery Poetry, Rattapallax, On Being/ American Public Media, Rough Cut Press, Ecological Citizen, The Poetry Society of Virginia and others. More at julestravers.journoportfolio and on Instagram @jules_wordspics.

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