thunder thighs
For a certain slant of light challenge: my least favorite feature.
When we were dating, my lover, in a moment of awe and admiration, referred to my hips as “Thunderous”. Apparently he was unaware of the negative connotation of “Thunder Thighs.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
When it comes to my least favorite features, I really think more about all the faults and flaws of personality and emotional that I am riddled with… but the most easily photographed; my thighs. Short stubby legs and meaty thighs.
But you know… I am okay with them. So I guess they don’t really fit the requirements of the challenge of ‘my least favorite feature’. My hands (also pictured) are also lacking in grace: wide with stubby fingers and I don’t take care of my nails. But I like what my hands do for me. Honestly, my least favorite features about myself are my emotional instability and my isolationist personality. But I was too lazy to try to figure out how to put that in a photo. So here you go. My thunder thighs.
And for your entertainment, Lucille Clifton’s brilliant Homage to My Hips:
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top
thunder thighs
For a certain slant of light challenge: my least favorite feature.
When we were dating, my lover, in a moment of awe and admiration, referred to my hips as “Thunderous”. Apparently he was unaware of the negative connotation of “Thunder Thighs.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
When it comes to my least favorite features, I really think more about all the faults and flaws of personality and emotional that I am riddled with… but the most easily photographed; my thighs. Short stubby legs and meaty thighs.
But you know… I am okay with them. So I guess they don’t really fit the requirements of the challenge of ‘my least favorite feature’. My hands (also pictured) are also lacking in grace: wide with stubby fingers and I don’t take care of my nails. But I like what my hands do for me. Honestly, my least favorite features about myself are my emotional instability and my isolationist personality. But I was too lazy to try to figure out how to put that in a photo. So here you go. My thunder thighs.
And for your entertainment, Lucille Clifton’s brilliant Homage to My Hips:
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top