This Body Too

eric mccarty
2 min readOct 24, 2021
This Body Too — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

This Body too:

it’s this body too that awakens, a wisdom of parts that function as a whole, cohesion, and even as we age, grow ill, and eventually die — we are present through every stage, witness and embodied though every point of its existence. We are not removed from the story of the body, not a separate nor higher self that’s somehow greater than our form. The body is soul, the stuff of earth, and stars, particles in trade of…

eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student