After Teaching a Class on Eating Disorders
Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, Vol. 57, No.2, 2003, 234.
[Reprinted with permission]
The down vest and baggy pants
hiding
meager bones hinged together
as if by chance.
And then
the drawn taught face and sunken eyes
revealing
pain upon shame.
And yet again
abundant hips and ample thighs
spilling
over the lips of chairs
rippling into pools of self-loathing.
"It's only a matter of will power!" he judged.
What else didn't the student notice
there in plain view?
Martha Ann Robbins Th.D.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
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Pittsburgh, PA 15206
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