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 have surgery
on areas that no longer suit us
and the scalpel delivers that change.
even tree branches reach
beyond the limitations
of what they can hold
sometimes its their roots
or buds that 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.