BODY IMAGE Poem: Inside Out, by Kimberly Wilder

One local seated between two visitors
she is curvy, they are thin.

The one on the left asks the one on the right,
do you do yoga?

Leaving the one in the middle feeling invisible,
outraged because the answer is yes,

but she’s not asked.
Her favorite studio is deemed untraditional.

The other visitor’s suggestion is taken
because she is traditional.

Neither visitor is aware of the harm, but
she reminds herself that she is beautiful.

Inside
and out.