Prompt:

Consider the body. Your own and those around you. Write the body somewhere in the poem. Think of growing - scars and birth marks. Think of the way the body changes and moves. Be tender with it. Write the story of your body. Or a story of a body that you love. Hold it close in a poem.

Poem 11/30 excerpt

I want to know. Can see the trail of her body

at the bookshop. In the schoolyard, in the hills,

trailing after hillbillies. Calling herself one too.

How we were kin those winters of writing.

Reading in the chapel on campus. Stained

glass. My time there was short-lived.