The instructor

on the video trills,

“Drag your leg like you’re moving through toffee.”

Today I am wading,

waging a fight fit for Augustus

begging how little must I be

to wear your black dress?

I was once gluttonous

in joy.

By Cara Nicholson

Oxford student, expert procrastinator, last living fan of gluten.

Art by Abigail Hodges