Mantis 22 (Summer 2024)
dis.orientations
J. Catcher Ward
The Shadow Body
Sit in the
faint light and
let me tell you about the shadow
body.
A stillness, a whirling disk.
How do I peel back the silence
of limbs
and reach the place of the faces?
It starts where the body isn’t
And there are many.
Somewhere else
beyond the reach of
one
J. CATCHER WARD is a writer at large in the world.