Slimfast
Snackwells
100 calorie packs
Low rise jeans
Christina Aguilera’s hip bones
My mom dropping me off once a week
at Weight Watchers meetings in the Lutheran church across from Walmart
The lady at Weight Watchers who said
I should put on cherry ChapStick
if I wanted something sweet
Victoria's Secret Pink collection
Tramp stamps
Morgan Spurlock’s “Supersize Me”
& footage of fat people on the news every night,
the present fear that one of the blurred faces
would be mine
Mandy Moore
Curves
The off-brand Christian Curves in the K-Mart
shopping center that my mom took us to
Running circuits for Jesus, staying lean to contemporary Christian
Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation
Looking up fat camps on the family computer we kept in the roll top
desk in the dining room & crying
The moment in The Breakfast Club when Judd Nelson says “Claire is a fat girl's name”
My burning shame
My body
Claire Nelson is a human and poet living in the coastal empire. You can find her poems at low tide.
