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Micaela Mascialino holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Barbaric Yawp, The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and The Anthology of New England Writers.

AUTOIMMUNE by Micaela Mascialino

Thursday, 14 November 2013 by Micaela Mascialino

when she hears the word
she pictures a car
crashing into a column     her spine

she’s told other words
invasion   foreign   attack
now missiles are guided
into finger joints
the left elbow     a combat zone

like an allergy
to part of yourself
the doctor explains
her knees are sneezing

where she sees a stub
of pale thumb
something in her sees
not-body
she’s a girl inside
of another girl

a whole rejecting
its wholeness

something extra her body
insists keeps swelling
to point out the exact places
here     right here
get rid of this

 

 

 

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