As I undress, I watch my flesh swell. I notice the sheaves of my hips, my marshy belly rivered with surgery scars— and I fall in love with the acreage of my life.
The four years, that I unraveled into cancer, I do not miss. Nor the weight of my happiness shriveling into a stick man- vacating skin and bone turning me almost invisible, a memory.
So, I pinch the loyalty of my body in the light as it labors to return me to blessed joy, makes me the spacious church where I can praise the Lord for the jiggling miracle that’s my life.
Every stanza is so wonderful! “I pinch the loyalty of my body in the light
as it labors to return me to blessed joy” just one of many beautiful phrasings! Divine!
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