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…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student