April | Poetry Month | 12/30

Prompt:

Teach this brilliant poem by Renée Watson: This Body. Love this poet and poem so much. Check out Renée’s work here and cannot wait to see the poems that rise up. You could use the prompts: My body…This body…My hands…What I feel…

Poem 12/30 excerpt

but I keep reading

all the traumas in the world

hold onto it all.