That's really lovely. I communicate in prose, so no poetry from me, but here is one of my favorites
"Curvature
My belly was never meant to be no mesa
all high, windy flat and dry.
I've got precious eggs in here to protect.
If you see bones showing,
I'm not doing my job.
You've got to think burial mounds
or the sacred hills that roll in Lakota lands.
You've got to feel a new moon
curving up cozy in bud-womb trees.
Or a beaver's dam , close-packed and shaggy,
hugging in all the Mississippi mud water
that doesn't have a date down in New Orleans.
My round, firm, boastful and bountiful belly
is every horizon that has never been sailed.
It is the flesh and blood curvature
of a thousand planets all orbiting
the brightest light they can find.
That's what heavenly bodies do.
-Mary Scott"
I'm a a pretty good place right now with my body image. Still not great but much better than It has been in some time. I've been overweight from the age of 6 and am only now even beginning to come to some kind of terms with it. Its a tough thing, especially as I have no "thin image" of myself to come back to. I tried for the longest time to completely ignore my outside and just focus on liking what's inside. That's really not possible. It seperated me from everything physical about me and it ignored the reality of things. I'm now trying to actually enjoy my abundance
blissfully in love with Cedar born at home on 2/9 weighing 10 lbs. 12 oz. 
shhh...they'll know we've been drinking together! 
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