This is my summer body 
It is also my winter body
my fall and spring body

This is my body on days when I despise it
when I feed it too much or not enough
when I look at its reflection in the mirror and wish
it did not belong to me

This is my swimsuit body
my sweatpants body
my swearing at the heavens body

This is the body that started with
my mother and will end
beneath the dirt 

This is my body when I breathe
the crisp air on a
Kentucky evening 
and sneeze all through a
Kentucky day

This is my body that keeps
beating, blood streaming,
while I sleep 

summer body, somebody