Pruning Trees/ Pruning Bodies

People talk about pruning
in the surgeon’s office
pruning in areas that spill over
and have become too painful to bear,
so we cut getting rid
of what no longer serves us
and the scalpel delivers that change.
even tree branches reach
beyond the limitations
of what they can hold
sometimes their roots
or buds have to go
much like humans shed our apperance
for a version of ourselves that we can live with
and to counter the loss of power
restored by the sloughing
of mandarin like flesh
that redefines the curvature
of the breasts.