Faith Palermo (she/ her) is a writer from Eastern Massachusetts. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at George Mason University and the Nonfiction Editor at Phoebe Journal. Her work has appeared in the Hyacinth Review and Unstamatic. You can find her on Twitter @‌faith_palermo and her website: http://www.faithpalermo.com

ENUMERATE

(Landscape of) A Body

By FAITH PALERMO

When I imagine warping my body to wring the pain out, it’s my skull I imagine remolding. I screw my head off like a bottle cap. An extreme: after breaking the ice that’s formed at the surface, I plunge bone into crisp water, freezing pain.