“{marginalia} a limited body of iterations

inner tracks adjacent, a star, this song

asserts animation / agitation / if in sequence

performed kneeling / beside a woman becoming

whole as a patchwork evolves incrementally

over generations, from clay and water

the part a chamber, rib or beam / a hand fallen

and the legs are snakes she has sewn

or reconstructed herself in the image of her

maker / if nameless while the earth spins

whom to call into question / what we assumed

were finite waters / a tornado in restoration

violently exploding a myth known as churn