This Skin

This skin, this sac of dung
& joy, this spleen floating
like a compass needle inside
nighttime, always divining
West Africa's dusty horizon.
-Yusef Komunyakaa

what dreams cause me
to abandon my pillow each night?
push away each of them, in fact
since there always seem to be more than one
then wake to aching stiff neck twisted
tits and face smashed against the mattress
legs and arms akimbo
like the high pitched body of a jumper
waiting for her chalk outline
finally at rest
-Ani Difranco

My Body: A Hypertext by writer and visual artist, Shelley Jackson:
http://www.altx.com/thebody/

Commedienne Gilda Radner as Olympian gold medal gymnast, Nadia Comaneci:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9uNsHrkr3g