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Bodies have been on our minds (ha!) all year, maybe more than usual. So this poem—one of mine, which you may have seen a couple of years ago when I first published it—has been on my mind too.

I’ve got it memorized, and I speak it to myself a lot. Now I’m speaking it to you. I don’t know if it’s helpful, exactly. But maybe it can be a companion.

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