![At center of the image, in a rectangular inset with a heavyweight solid black border, the serif text: "one night, my friend fell inside me / sparked, and not just spark." The full serif text, wherein the inset is set, reads: "so here it is. my name is new. I live in disease and relief. that day chose. unsure, gotten / better. say acute say attacks all day losing to non-reality, that drug. today, this point, started / obsessively, began worse. over my symptoms I was Function in a way that degraded. / distortions lost, doing the only thing that mattered: the limit. she had taken me, my / symptoms' hand, scared for the best, for me. I was diagnosed. my name is new. I live in / disease and relief. that day chose. unsure, gotten better. say acute say attacks all day losing / to non-reality, that [the inset begins here] drug. today, this / point, started [inset] obsessively, began / worse. over my [inset: one night, my friend fell inside me.] symptoms I was / Function in a way [inset: sparked, and not just spark.] that degraded. / distortions lost, [inset] doing the only / thing that [inset] mattered: the limit / she had taken me, my symptoms' hand. scared for the best, for me. I was diagnosed. my / name is new. I live in disease and relief. that day chose. unsure, gotten better. say acute say / attacks all day losing to non-reality, that drug. today, this point, started obsessively, began / worse. over my symptoms I was Function in a way that degraded. distortions lost, doing the / only thing that mattered: the limit. she had taken me, my symptoms' hand. scared for the / best, for me. I was diagnosed. my name is new. I live in disease and relief. so, here it is. //// [the following right aligned, italicized:] recover (II)"](https://anmly.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Arianne-True-recover-II-alternative-cut.png)
Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a queer poet and folk artist from Seattle. Arianne has taught and mentored with Writers in the Schools (WITS), YouthSpeaks Seattle, and the Richard Hugo House, and is a proud alum of Hedgebrook and the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’s also a Jack Straw writer for 2020. You can find more of her work gathered online at ariannetrue.com.
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