Never empty. Empty.
Chalice, ringworm, birthmark, mole.
Halo, mandorla. The oriole’s aureole.
Home made by instinct, reproducing the architecture of desire.
Mandala. Prayer wheel.
Round because the egg is round.
Round because the breast is round.
Round because the tree is round.
Round because the horizon is round.
Coiled basket. The snake’s embrace.
Gape, gullet, belly.
A big fat zero.
The kind of thing I write when I don’t know what else to write, gazing at the hairy nest of my navel.
“People say snails carry their homes around with them. But I think because they secrete their whorled calcium carbonate shells out of their own bodies and cannot be detached from them (in life) we should say snails are their own homes.
“They can close the front door with the operculum at the end of their stomach-foot.”
– ever so humble
“How alert and vigilant the birds are, even when absorbed in building their nests!”
– John Burroughs, Wake-Robin