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Soothing Sensation

Posted on by Désirée Jung
04
Dec


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All these years,

and I have been talking to you

as if I wasn’t here.


Touching my body at night

realizing it has edges

borders underknown by me.


Just like a mirror, I expecting

your hand to show me what is skin.


Seduced by all the mothers who fell in love 

with the child I did not become.


So simple to have lightening,

soothing sensations, when underwater. 


Or no longer afraid other people will see my desire 

on the ground, readjusting to what feels like a slap. 


We are not alike; I tell the sun hit by the rush of cement.


I’m more like an empty pool holding vigil in a nameless

city, praying for jumps in midair. 


Official Selection of Canada Shorts 2022. Award of Commendation, Canada Shorts 2022.

Désirée Jung

My name is Désirée Jung and my intention here is to immerse into words. Writing my biography is a bit like witnessing the spectrum of my own gaze – an impossible task, due to its volatile and vulnerable contingency. For that reason, I let the poems speak for myself. I can add that I’m a Brazilian-Canadian artist, lover of beauty and everything (but not-all) that comes from a feminine space.