My Daily Meltdown: The Comfort of Wraps
Welcome to My Daily Meltdown, where I count down to the Nov. 6 release of MELT with insights about how I came to create the book.
In MELT, Joey is always getting into fights, so Dorothy gets him boxing gloves and wraps. She wraps his hands:
“She’s like a nurse treating her patient she’s
bandaging my
wounds. That’s how it feels like she’s
blanketing my hand — my
motley mutilated
poor
excuse
for a hand.
She winds it she
winds
it she lays it
on me
over me she
covers me in
tender
layers.
Safe
I feel safe. Comforted. It’s like when I wore the cuffs
when I held my own hand.
It’s like wearing the cuffs without the
cold
steel without the
shackling.
Who knew who
knew who
knew
I could feel good
without
feeling
bad.
All those nights
I spent in my bed hands huddled under my belly clutching at my fingers trying to find something
some
way
to feel better caught in that trap in that hell under siege overrun by all that screaming thrashing
bashing
going down
downstairs
all those nights these wraps they would’ve been perfect.”
I was able to capture Joey’s secure feeling in his wraps because I felt that way when I first boxed. I loved the secure feeling I got in my wraps – and I would keep them on for hours after my lesson, writing in them, shopping it them, you name it. Sometimes people mistook them for bandages and asked me what had happened. I told them what they were, but usually pretended I was about to go to my boxing lesson – not that I’d left it hours ago.
Those wraps were so soothing, so comforting – they were like wearing comforters on my hands. They were like wearing mini-hugs. Strange that one wears them to punch things. But then, wraps are not the thing that hits. They are the protection that shields us. So I guess it’s not so stranger after all.
Bye for now.
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