Prompt:

Write a love poem for your body. Write about the parts that you love and also the parts that are complicated and harder for you to love. Honor your body and all the ways it helps you move through the world. Write about the whole body or individual parts. Show up for your body with words.

Poem 8/30 excerpt

There are open hearts, lungs.

Bodies exist the way they are.

Whole. Nuanced. Complicated.

We show up together. Joyful.

Bad attitudes. Funky. Lost.

Shoulder-rolled. We exist.