emBodying
bod-y [bod-ee] : one. the physical
structure of animal or plant, living or dead. two. a corpse, carcass. three.
the trunk or main mass of something.
i have brought these limbs to you,
to show you the outline of my nation’s corpse,
to remind
you that this tissue shows you a map of every place i have
ever been to.
we are all central or main parts of
something.
Embodying
em- prefix- used to form verbs (action) from adjectives and nouns (things and carcasses)
embryonic, growing myself inside of me
again : a promise of fingernails and eyelashes and sensemaking from the sirens outside our shared window pane.
we made a promise to smell like many efforts, to smile after many failures, to come close but never touch,
we
are coming and moving towards the central or main part of a personbeingthing.
embodyIng
ing / a native english suffix (not to be
confused with suffering) meaning “one
the kind of” or “one decended from”
lend my weight to the other letters of
an alphabet – we rationalize our etymology with ignorance of the elements. our first fundamental process is the art of process itself.
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