Carried: Osis (Chronic symptoms)

A quality or a need that was rejected outright in childhood has been kept out of the account ever since, and exclusion has not diminished it — it has made it insistent and strange. Every approach it makes gets answered by flight, so what could have been ordinary arrives distorted and demanding, and the standoff settles into something long. The body takes the wear at whatever site the argument runs through, and the chronic quality of the symptom matches the chronic quality of the refusal. What the shape asks for is the excluded part given a hearing rather than another circuit of avoidance.

There's a part of me I've spent thirty years walking around, and lately it's started blocking the hallway.

Eris, left off the guest list and arriving anyway with something no one could ignore. The form implies a task: to issue the invitation rather than pay the price of having withheld it.