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Reviews for Frida's Boots
by Anna Wrobel
Robbins writes with uncanny honesty about physical and emotional weights we carry, the heaviness of secrets we might shed. She explores limits and desires of the body with an "ancient patience."...Here is no surrender to gloom.
Sample from Frida's Boots
A Kind of Grace
In the mirrored walls of
the modern dance studio
I see my ten-year-old body,
clad in black leotard, my thighs
like tree trunks. The other
girls flutter light as leaves;
as my rear end, in the merciless
reflection, is bigger and rounder
than a ten-year-old's should be.
In shame, I flee my body, leaving
behind only my big eyes, dreamy
and far off, as I miss my cue.
"What's that one doing in there?"
the owner whispers to my teacher
and, looking at my clumsy
reflection, I know she is right.
Decades later, after the stroke,
my left leg drags, my left arm
pulls me down, I move slowly,
mortified when unexpectedly
I catch a glimpse of my image
as I shamble along. Yet now,
I am grateful to walk at all
and that is a kind of grace.
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