Hormones to Hormones

Unsplash — Alexander Krivitskiy

I think about what my ovaries are doing,

and the blood that flows in hundreds of streams

all throughout my arms, abdomen, legs

and into my brain; I think about all the hormones,

most of which I don’t know the names of, in my body,

and wonder what they do every second.

I think about how my thoughts affect how everything

inside me work together and I wonder what another

person who puts their hand on my shoulder

or stomach or the small of my back may feel;

I wonder if that person may somehow feel

how my hormones and all else have cooperated

in living together under my skin and flesh

and around my bones. I wonder if people

around me have intimate relationships

with their bodies like I try

to have when I put Vaseline on my heels,

groom or trim all over and when I wash

more sensitive parts of my body a few times

daily. I think about how my body closely knows