What is gathered may help you reconcile happy failures, sad triumphs, empty victories. This egg is an amulet, small oval, a capsule of what
It started with skin—fur, scales, outerness— and then warm. Something to fill, the shell a pocket for a god to store trinkets. Or it
Cats have their nine lives but I have my nine eyes. Two devour the shallows for a mate. Others wake when my thousands of