My body horizontal, face down I push against the earth. I push against the rock-skinned molten core, spinning space-top magnet. I push against the mother sphere, the curved blue breast and the warped hand of physics that holds me here. In the body’s cosmos cells collapse like osmotic galaxies, strands of creature strengthen, stretched on bone scaffolding. When I stand again, I am stronger. I arise with my breast full of blood and stone flesh flexes, animal power spun from gyred earth. But what greater strength might I know, what titan become, if instead of a push I endeavored with […]