Body Partnership, Poetry

Her Body

shellypruittjohnson

This is for women Everywhere. Your body is yours. Your body is amazing. You are powerful.

“Her Body”

Her body is not on display

For you to critique like

A specimen

Pinned on a board.

 

Her body is not a mannequin,

Perfect

And never deviating from

Public demand.

 

Her body is not a machine

Which does what you wish

When and how

Never inconveniencing you.

 

Her body is living

And attenuates and elaborates

In its knowing

And is good.

 

Her body is like nothing

You have ever seen before

Or will again.

Her body defies you.

 

~Shelly Johnson

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Published by shellypruittjohnson

My name is Shelly Johnson, and I am a writer and philosopher with a Ph.D. in philosophy. One of my primary personal and philosophical interests is how we can learn to love ourselves and each other better in order to cultivate personal and political resilience. I teach ethics and a variety of other courses at a local college. I am the author of the blog Love is Stronger. I am also the author of three logic and critical thinking books for high school and middle school: _Argument Builder_, _Discovery of Deduction_ (co-author), and _Everyday Debate_, published by Classical Academic Press. You can reach me at shellypruittjohnson@gmail.com.

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