Glossary of Selected Terms

What is skin,

if not a taut swaddle

loosening, body

if not a warm swaddle

cooling, blood

if not thread

in a swaddle

made of body, horizons

if not lines

where sky swaddles

Earth. See father.

Stars, if not swaddled

matter emitting light. See spirit.

Wind, if it does not trace

paths around bodies. See blood.

Universe, if not outermost

concentric circle. See mother.

A kiss, if not mouths pressed

into wet twists, taste

if not flavor swaddling

tongue, father

if not the option

to swaddle, spirit

if not the smallest unit

of the swaddled, mother

if not hips

swaddling womb. See skin.

See body. See wind. See universe. See blood.

after Nin Andrews