Anabelle’s Blog:
Gym Confessions is a poetry and creative nonfiction fusion blog dedicated to the time I have spent in and out of the gym across my 21 years of life.
My name is Anabelle Taff and I am a rising senior at the University of Maine at Farmington. I am working towards completing degrees in Creative Writing and English, as well as earning a minor in Video Game Studies. I am primarily a poet that enjoys writing about lesbianism, gender, mundanity, crows, and cowboys.
GYM CONFESSIONS: 1
I. Middle School the carrion-climbing unit sixth grade, suspended fifteen feet up, body rocking into the synthetic rockclimbing wall: a boat barely surviving a ferocious ocean. hands slid like dull skates on slick ice as i grappled for the plastic, pastel green and red crags. the harness dug into my skin, made brand new stretch…
