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Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has had experience in writing, teaching, and publishing in multiple genres: poetry, essay, memoir, literary criticism, and short story. She is the author of seven books, including two new ones: a novel, Shamrock and Lotus, and poetry, This is how honey runs. She works as a creativity coach in her Co-Creating practice, which teaches people how to use writing as a way of finding healing, balance and beauty in their lives. Please visit her website to learn more.
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My Skin Became a Touchable Thing
By Cassie Premo Steele
October 31, 2004
I borrowed clothes,
and thought I was someone
different. I was accepting
compliments for who
I seemed to be
becoming.
But I shivered,
in blue and black
layers of sweater.
I could not get warm
until I took it off.
And then my skin
became a touchable thing. Like the selkies
who find warmth
in the wet water
of their true seal
covering.
I dove, deep,
and found another body, my own,
waiting for me,
after all these years,
young
and on fire
not with what was
or would be
possible,
but in the presence
of what was being given
just then.
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