ALT Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins

ALT “My cells die and replace themselves—five days, fourteen days, fifteen years—I am partially new and yet…still always dying.” Cataloguing Pain, Allison Blevins.

ALT “Cage me in the memory of a body without pain.” Cataloguing Pain, Allison Blevins.

ALT “I should have told you again and again, I no longer believe you love me.“ Cataloguing Pain, Allison Blevins

ALT “All our heart wants is to pump and pump, locked tight in his warm cage of muscle and bone.”

ALT “I’ve been conscripted into the agony of the unwell. We didn’t know how pain waited beneath the surface of date night, lake, weekends, weeknight prayers over chicken and rice.“