prelude
i
So here it is.
Sophie never existed.
And yet.
She’s the unfinished vitamins.
She’s potential
caught briefly in a knot of cells.
A handful of heartbeats.
The dates on my calendar
made free.
ii
Buoyant light catches
his larch brown hair
a sapling babbling ideas
His hand slips mine
earthy sweet joy!
my son running free
jennifer todd
Jennifer Todd is a psychologist.
She works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK) and adjunct research fellow at the Centre for Psychological Medicine at Perdana University (Malaysia), where she researches the body and self perceptions.
Her articles have been published extensively in scientific journals, and she is the author of numerous academic book chapters.
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