Full

“She’s so full of herself!” we say,
as if that were an insult. As if
there were something else
that one should be full of….

I want to be packed as full of myself
as an avocado in its skin,
as a seal sunning on the beach….

Inside, skin to skin, muscled heart
to brain to bone,
let there be only you.

—Lynn Ungar

When do you feel full of yourself?