her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus.

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-s…”

“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul c…”

“Envoiwe had no voicewe had no namewe had no choicewe had one faceone face the s…”

“A man in a cloud, with icicle teeth and eyes of fire.”