Before the iron star,
earthquake snaking
over the far side of
dreams, listening for
butterfly whispers
in the hard blue of
a desert sky, a child
holds a foot over a
knee to examine a
thorn. For a moment,
all is the space between
his hand, his foot,
and the tiny barb. What
follows is a long
discovery: how
a body can learn to
abandon itself to
pure endurance.
