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