Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

My home is full of hope and ghosts.

when an NDN laughs, it’s because they’re applying a fresh layer of medicine on an open wound.

I am my own best medicine.

There are times when you have to scare yourself to find yourself.

I may not have the best body but I do have a body—and it’s a body that deserves to be touched and loved and owned, annit?