sitting with pain

on the therapeutic value of life modelling

Photo by Nicolas Ladino Silva on Unsplash

Sitting with pain,

flowers behind my head

in a pose that isn't, actually, that bad


in front of 7 middle-aged women,

carving out and scooping back time

after births, stretch-marks, wrinkles, & finding

they could, after all, stand their husbands enough for a weekend away.


& there's me –

figure-molding b…