Self-Care in the Summer

Something about beauty, about never

having the body I’d imagined, something

about a body better than I’d ever

imagine, not being encumbered

by the brunt of a body, its scar history,

its messy digestion, its sticky effluents

and tightening tendons, living in structure,

its flawed architecture.

 

I was loved as I am

and ever shall be. Lacking

in envy, nothing to achieve.

Simply being. Something about being

simple, the rain falling on each body like

blessings, never crossing the same river

twice, never being the same body

loosed by that river.


Also by Emily Pérez

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