BODY/LESS, by K. Mobley

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

What does it take to unmake a girlhood? What is left after? In BODY/LESS, witness the process of an unbecoming: the displacement of self from body, body from girl, girl from family. This collection of poems unfolds like a dissection, peeling back layers of imposed identity to reveal the creature underneath—at times gentle, and at others, a powerful scream.

Mobley navigates post-girlhood identity using the body as a focal point, a site of shame and violence, but inevitably, something that begs to be witnessed: “it isn’t enough to say / that I have missed the sun / and what it means / to be seen everywhere.”

K. Mobley (they/them) is a bundle of crows in a long green cloak. A poet and writer based out of Missouri, their work explores themes of gender, the body, and upbringing. A winner of poetry contests from Garden Party Collective and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, they have also been published in Chestnut Review, Wingless Dreamer, and Street Lit.