All of This is You (for Elizabeth)

All of this is you
from the triumphant black hair
that coils toward the Sun
to the bare brown feet
that are both beautiful and hard;
legs that are strong enough to run
and strong enough to stay;
two arms that radiate comfort
and prickle with violence;
hands that wisely fabricate
and accidentally break;
breasts and belly that crafted
two small, helpless lives
that drank from your body
and buckled your skin.

This is everything:
the parts that you love
and the other ones, too.
All, all of this is you.