“Before love, before loss, before we ever yearn to be something we are not, we are bodies breathing in space – -“turbulent, fleshy, sensual,” Walt Whitman once wrote. We are inescapably physical, drawn to the inescapably human. But if we are defined by our own bodies, we are entwined by the bodies of others.”

“Before love, before loss, before we ever yearn to be something we are not, we are bodies breathing in space – -“turbulent, fleshy, sensual,” Walt Whitman once wrote. We are inescapably physical, drawn to the inescapably human. But if we are defined by our own bodies, we are entwined by the bodies of others.”

— Amy Ellis Nutt