The Body & the Weather

There was once a woman who learned the day through her muscles first.

There was once a woman who learned the day through her muscles first. Before thought, before sound, there was the tightening. Calves drawing up like cords pulled too far. A bright, sudden pain that said: you are made of water and salt and small electric signals that misfire.

She answered the way bodies do. Glass of water. Pinch of salt. The elastic yellow curve of a banana, starch and potassium, a simple spell.