By Stephanie Enyeart

Disability meant
the disadvantages
you could see:
the unusable
sense,
the misdeveloped
limbs,
the imperfectly functioning
body

Not
the unusable
dopamine,
the misdeveloped
fight or flight response,
the imperfectly functioning
brain

I wasn’t disabled

just unable
to accept disability
as a possibility

Stephanie doesn’t write poetry a lot. She works in higher education in Indianapolis and has a recovering relationship with writing. You can follow her on Instagram, @thefluffyskunk, but she hasn’t posted in months. Thanks, depression

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